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• Funeral Parade of Roses (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (17/02/2025) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Trans actor Peter gives an astonishing performance as Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet where she's ignited a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda for the attentions of club owner Gonda. One of Japan's leading experimental filmmakers, Matsumoto bends and distorts time, and freely mixes documentary interviews, Brechtian film-within-a-film asides, Oedipal premonitions of disaster, his own avant-garde shorts, and even on-screen cartoon balloons. Funeral Parade of Roses is a celebration of youth and subcultures, a condemnation of intolerance, and a one-of-kind cinematic experience. A kaleidoscopic masterpiece, and one of the most subversive, intoxicating films of the 60s. Extras ¢ 4K digital restoration, presented in High Definition ¢ Feature-length commentary by Chris D, punk poet, singer, actor, film historian and author of Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film ¢ Original Japanese trailer (1969) ¢ US theatrical trailer (2017)

• Funeral Parade of Roses (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (18/05/2020) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Transgender actor Pîtâ gives an astonishing performance as Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet where she's ignited a violent lovetriangle with reigning drag queen Leda for the attentions of club owner Gonda. One of Japan's leading experimental filmmakers, Matsumoto bends and distorts time, and freely mixes documentary interviews, Brechtian filmwithinafilm asides, Oedipal premonitions of disaster, his own avantgarde shorts, and even onscreen cartoon balloons. Funeral Parade of Roses is a celebration of youth and subcultures, a condemnation of intolerance, and a oneofkind cinematic experience. A kaleidoscopic masterpiece, and one of the most subversive, intoxicating films of the 60s, released for the first time on Bluray in the UK. Special Features: Released in High Definition for the first time in the UK ***FIRST PRESSING ONLY*** Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full film credits Extras TBC

• Fighting Delinquents | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £11.55   |  Saving you £8.44 (42.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This rarely seen gem from the master Suzuki casts teenage heart-throb Koji Wada as young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an escalating family feud that ultimately leads to tragedy. This is the DVD premiere of Suzuki's first colour feature. Lean mean and stylish as always this tale of youth-gone-wild is both vibrant and touching. Suzuki contrasts tranquil glimpses of traditional regional life with the emergence of the new rock 'n' roll youth culture and the greed and seething cynicism of encroaching Westernisation. Also released under the title Go To Hell Hoodlums! this is a melodrama as colourful shocking and exhilarating as one would come to expect from Japan's master filmmaker.