"Director: Toshio Matsumoto"

• 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

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  Cross-dressing club-kid Eddie (played by real-life transvestite entertainer extraordinaire Peter) vies with a rival drag-queen (Osamu Ogasawara) for the favours of drug-dealing cabaret-manager Gonda (Yoshio Tsuchiya). Passions escalate and blood begins to flow - before all tensions are released in a jolting climax (that prefigures by nearly thirty years Tsai Ming-liang's similarly scandalous The River). With its mixture of purely narrative sequences and documentary footage