ABOUT TOSHIO MATSUMOTO
Film director who is best known for the 1969 drama feature Funeral Parade of Roses. This film served as a major inspiration for Stanley Kubrick 's adaptation of A Clockwork Orange.
He graduated from Tokyo University in 1955.
He served as Dean of Arts at the Kyoto University of Art and Design.
He was from Japan.
Both he and Akira Kurosawa were influential Japanese film directors.
