Funeral Parade of Roses
Toshio Matsumoto / JP, 1969 / 107 min.
“A carnivalesque melding of documentary vérité and avant-garde psychedelia, Funeral Parade of Roses offers a shocking and ecstatic journey through the nocturnal underworld of Tokyo’s Shinjuku neighbourhood, following the strange misadventures of a rebellious drag queen fending off his/her rivals.
Often cited as a major inspiration for Kubrick”s A Clockwork Orange, Matsumoto”s breakthrough film is a visually audacious and lyrically abstract testament to the vertiginous daring of the postwar Japanese avant-garde art and film scenes. Matsumoto orchestrates a series of quite astonishing visual set pieces, including actual performances by the influential street theater group Zero-Jigen” (Haden Guest, Harvard Film Archive). Curated and introduced by Julian Ross with thanks to Postwar Japan Moving Image Archive and the artist.
Double bill with EYE on Art-programme Ito Takashi. , which starts at 21.30. Double tickets will give discount: € 16,- (€ 10,- for separate ticket).
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Director
Toshio Matsumoto
Production year
1969
Country
JP
Original title
Bara no sôretsu
Length
107 min.
Format
Blu-ray
Part of
Mubii Japan
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