Funeral Parade of Roses

1969, 105m, DCP, Japan

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This kaleidoscopic panorama of Tokyo’s transfemme underground at the tail end of the ’60s remains one of the great underseen works of LGBTIA+ cinema. With its explicit nudity and drug use, stunning visual allusions to graphic design and comic books, and wild fluctuations between narrative and documentary, the late Matsumoto’s debut is truly revolutionary. Stanley Kubrick famously cited it as a major influence on A Clockwork Orange, but there’s never been another film like it, before or since. In Japanese with English subtitles.

 

A film by Toshio Matsumoto

Starring Peter Osamu Ogasawara Yoshio Tsuchiya Emiko Azuma Toyosaburo Uchiyama Don Madrid Koichi Nakamura Chieko Kobayashi Shōtarō Akiyama Kiyoshi Awazu

Still extraordinary… one of the most formally advanced films of the psychedelic decade.”

Time Out (London)

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