Toshio Matsumoto
According to Japanese media reports, the famous Japanese director and independent filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto died of illness on the 12th of this month at the age of 85. He was one of the three pillars of Independent Cinema in Japan in the 1960s, and in the 1960s he founded Film Criticism magazine with Nagisa Oshima, Tadao Sato, Koji Wakamatsu, Masahiro Shinoda and others, which directly promoted the emergence of the Japanese New Wave film movement. It had a great influence on the development of Japanese cinema.
The Funeral of the Rose
Among his film works, the feature film "The Funeral of the Rose" is arguably the most famous, and this film has been called the first work of the Japanese New Wave. At a time when the culture was not yet civilized enough, this film opened up the gay culture of Japanese cinema. The actors of the whole film are real homosexuals, and the content integrates various elements such as violence and rebellion, full of anti-Oedipal complex meaning, and criticizes the various social problems behind Japan's post-war rapid economic development, so the film was greatly criticized after the completion of filming.