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
"A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grindhouse shocks" and modern parody of the Oedipus Rex myth featuring: Nudity, sex, drug-use, religious cults and alot drag queens is an interesting movie with great high-contrast black and white photography. As well as one of the best opening sequences of any film I have ever seen, a swinging-sixties soundtrack and, quoting the original Japanese trailer, seven real gay men.
And, in order to help contextualise this contemporaneously controversial film, this DVD edition features not only an interview with the films director, but also an audio commentary by him, the above mentioned trailer and elucidating essays by musician Jim O'Rourke and Japan expert Roland Domenig.
Highly recommended as a film and DVD.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play 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&39;s similarly scandalous The River) With its mixture of purely narrative sequences and documentary footage Funeral Parade Of Roses comes to us from a moment when cinema set itself to test and even eradicate the boundaries between fiction and reality desire and experience Consequently the film shares a kinship with such other 1969 works as Masahiro Shinoda&39;s Double Suicide and Ingmar Bergman&39;s A Passion Yet Matsumoto achieves a zig-zag modulation between pathos and hilarity that makes his picture utterly unique a filmic howl in the face of social moral and artistic convention A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks (not to mention a direct influence on Stanley Kubrick&39;s A Clockwork Orange) Funeral Parade Of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late &39;60s Tokyo underworld In Toshio Matsumoto&39;s controversial debut feature seemingly nothing is taboo neither the incorporation of visual flourishes straight from the worlds of contemporary graphic-design painting comic-books and animation; nor the unflinching depiction of nudity sex drug-use and public-toilets But of all the "transgressions" here on display perhaps one in particular stands out the most the film&39;s groundbreaking and unapologetic portrayal of Japanese gay subculture Actors Yoshio Tsuchiya & Osamu OgasawaraDirector Toshio MatsumotoCertificate 18 years and overYear 1969Screen Fullscreen 43Languages JapaneseSubtitles EnglishDuration 1 hour and 45 minutes (approx)
Toshio Matsumoto writes and directs this Japanese drama set in the seedy underworld of late-1960s Tokyo. Cross-dressing club kid Eddie (Peter) vies with rival drag queen Leda (Osamu Ogasawara) for the favours of drug-dealing cabaret manager Gonda (Yoshio Tsuchiya). Passions escalate and blood begins to flow, before a shocking revelation leaves Eddie and Gonda facing some terrible choices.
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