<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That is sad news, though I had heard he was not in good health. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Matsumoto-san is of course
well known for his work as a feature film director, with Funeral Parade
of Roses being his most famous work, but he started out in documentary,
and was later a leader in experimental film and video. He was also a
leading theorist, central to the conceptual development of the Japanese
New Wave (Markus and I thus recommended Cinema Journal tran<span class="text_exposed_show">slate
his work). On a personal level, he was also a great help in my career. I
first got to know him through the Yamagata Film Festival, where I had
the privilege of interviewing him for Documentary Box. Later, when
Matsumoto-san was president of the Japan Society of Image Arts and
Sciences, he appointed me to the board of directors, hoping to add new
blood to the Society. In the last few years, as I worked on my book on
Japanese film theory, he kindly consented to long interviews even as his
health was in decline. Both as a scholar and as a film fan I am deeply
indebted to his work. $BBgJQ$*@$OC$K$J$j$^$7$?!#$"$j$,$H$&$4$6$$$^$7$?!#9g>8!#(B</span></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show"> <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class=""><span class="UFICommentBody">Here is my DocBox interview: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.yidff.jp_docbox_9_box9-2D2-2De.html&d=DwMFJg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=13dW5-kCadWFk2XIdvGqiSvDwWSCBI-xJpS8ceEWog4&s=VBtIiwmIuGhvdGVkuSYYASTOHaHlkyLeFHNXwPLbbhM&e=" class="">http://www.yidff.jp/docbox/9/box9-2-e.html</a></span></span></span></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class=""><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class=""><span class="UFICommentBody">Here is Michael Raine's translation of Matsumoto-san's "Theory of Avant-Garde Documentary" <a class="" dir="ltr" target="_blank" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__l.facebook.com_l.php-3Fu-3Dhttps-253A-252F-252Fmuse.jhu.edu-252Farticle-252F486104-26h-3DATNcGuPoEO2viiS7XgSqYMnI44MkoEvCQxCKlp4jY0TmhPx7WWWTUIm1k97MPdXazbL8VQjPLzog8uSTazp72N7DT6740xo-5FKM2Qiz6hrjn2kJXUacF4aw76KHCEYpedeSyRGiWhcAW-5F-5Fhe-5FY73v7PYz8g&d=DwMFJg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=13dW5-kCadWFk2XIdvGqiSvDwWSCBI-xJpS8ceEWog4&s=drpsThYlxm6ZbdNBEULvAcmIZUJK17xC1Rnl5fYlqeM&e=" rel="nofollow">https://muse.jhu.edu/article/486104</a></span></span></span></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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