A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grindhouse shocks (not to mention a direct influence on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange), Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late-'60s Tokyo underworld.Cross-dressing club-kid Eddie (played by real-life transvestite .. Read more
| Starring | Yoshio Tsuchiya, Peter, Osamu Ogasawara |
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| Director | Toshio Matsumoto |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grindhouse shocks (not to mention a direct influence on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange), Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late-'60s Tokyo underworld.
Cross-dressing club-kid Eddie (played by real-life transvestite entertainer extraordinaire Peter, famed for his role as Kyoami the Fool in Akira Kurosawa's Ran) vies with a rival drag-queen (Osamu Ogasawara) for the favours of drug-dealing cabaret-manager Gonda (Yoshio Tsuchiya, himself a Kurosawa player who appeared in such films as Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and High and Low). Passions escalate and blood begins to flow - before all tensions are released in a jolting climax.
| Starring | Yoshio Tsuchiya, Peter, Osamu Ogasawara |
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| Director | Toshio Matsumoto |
| Studio | Eureka Entertainment |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 44 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Japanese |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1969 To Rent: DVD: 21 Aug 2006 |
Like Oshima's contemporary Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, this still extraordinary filmwas a response to the 1968 student... read more on Time Out
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Rivetting but completely impenetrable
An angry, febrile, intellectual response to the student riots of 1968, Toshio Matsumoto's film plunges into Tokyo's gay underworld for a tale about a ... read more »
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chicks with dicks in monochrome
Arty movie about sixties gay scene in Tokyo that unfolds quite merrily with everyone being suitably free spirited towards somewhat gory and tragic ending. Not ... read more »
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Putting the fun into funeral
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Rivetting but completely impenetrable
An angry, febrile, intellectual response to the student riots of 1968, Toshio Matsumoto's film plunges into Tokyo's gay underworld for a tale about a ... read more »
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