Funeral Parade of Roses (Blu-ray)

*This is NOT a comic! But I did go to film school!

By Toshio Matsumoto. Published by BFI. 

Blu-ray disc, 105 minutes, 1.37:1 aspect ratio, B&W, 1969 (2025 pressing)

Trans actor Peter gives an astonishing performance as Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet – where she’s ignited a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda for the attentions of club owner Gonda. One of Japan’s leading experimental filmmakers, Toshio Matsumoto bends and distorts time, and freely mixes documentary interviews, Brechtian film-within-a-film asides, Oedipal premonitions of disaster, his own avant-garde shorts, and even on-screen cartoon balloons. Funeral Parade of Roses is a celebration of youth and subcultures, a condemnation of intolerance, and a one-of-kind cinematic experience. A kaleidoscopic masterpiece, and one of the most subversive, intoxicating films of the 60s.

Special features: Commentary by Chris D author of Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, Trailers.