BFI
Funeral Parade of Roses
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Add rightsFormat Blu-Ray, Region B
Original format 35mm
Year 1969
Language(s) Japanese
Artist(s) Toshio Matsumoto
Running time 105 min
Films
Funeral Parade of Roses
Description
A new edition of Toshio Matsumoto's subversive and intoxicating masterpiece.
Transgender actor Peter gives a stunning performance as Eddie, a hostess at Bar Genet – where she has sparked a violent love triangle with queen drag queen Leda for the attention of club owner Gonda.
Toshio Matsumoto, one of Japan's leading experimental filmmakers, distorts and warps time, freely mixing documentary interviews, Brechtian "film-within-a-film" interludes, Oedipal premonitions of disaster, his own avant-garde short films, and even on-screen comic book bubbles.
Funeral Parade of Roses is a celebration of youth and subcultures, a condemnation of intolerance, and a unique cinematic experience. A kaleidoscopic masterpiece, and one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the 60s.
Bonus Features
4K digital restoration, presented in High Definition
Full-length commentary by punk poet, singer, actor, film historian, and author of Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film Chris D
Original Japanese trailer (1969)
US trailer (2017)