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Funeral Parade of Roses (薔薇の葬列, Bara no Sōretsu) is a 1969 Japanese drama art film directed and written by Toshio Matsumoto, loosely adapted from Oedipus Rex and set in the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo.
Oct 14, 2017 · Funeral Parade of Roses (薔薇の葬列 Bara no Sōretsu) is a 1969 Japanese drama directed and written by Toshio Matsumoto, as a loose adaptation of Oedipus Rex set in the gay underground of 1960's Japan.
Oct 29, 1970 · Funeral Parade of Roses: Directed by Toshio Matsumoto. With Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimi Jô, Koichi Nakamura. The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.
Jun 16, 2020 · Shining a light on the gay subcultures of the 1960s Tokyo underground, Toshio Matsumoto’s pop-art masterpiece Funeral Parade of Roses did what few films of the international new wave era ever did: put queer experience front and centre.
Mar 22, 2023 · Director Toshio Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive int...
"Funeral Parade of Roses" does have a traditional narrative: transvestite Eddie (Pita) struggles with his identity while he and his lover Jimi (Yoshiji Jo) try to avoid detection from Jimi's main squeeze Leda (Osamu Ogasawara). But, in order to interrogate the way Japanese mainstream and counter-culture both fetishize and alienate members of ...
Jun 16, 2023 · 1969. From Letterboxd: An electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late-’60s Tokyo underworld.
