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Funeral Parade Of Roses
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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.
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. 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. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses for the first time outside of Japan on any home video format.
- Masters of Cinema
- Toshio Matsumoto
- 18
- Peter
- Osamu Ogasawara
- Yoshio Tsuchiya
- English
- Aspect Ratio 1.33:1
- 1969
- Japanese
- 1
- Masters Of Cinema Series, The
- 2
Funeral Parade Of Roses
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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.
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. 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. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses for the first time outside of Japan on any home video format.
- Masters of Cinema
- Toshio Matsumoto
- 18
- Peter
- Osamu Ogasawara
- Yoshio Tsuchiya
- English
- Aspect Ratio 1.33:1
- 1969
- Japanese
- 1
- Masters Of Cinema Series, The
- 2
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