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Funeral Parade Of Roses (2 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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| Long unavailable in the U.S., director Toshio Matsumoto's shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-worId of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. No Iess than Stanley Kubrick cited the fiIm as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. An unknown cIub dancer at the time, transgender actor Peter (from Kurosawa's RAN) gives an astonishing Edie Sedgwick/Warhol superstar-Iike performance as hot young thing Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet where she's ignited a violent Iove-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda (Osamu Ogasawara) for the attentions of club owner Gonda (played by Kurosawa regular Yoshio Tsuchiya, from SEVEN SAMURAI and YOJlMBO). One of Japan's leading experimentaI filmmakers, Matsumoto bends and distorts time here Iike Resnais in LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, freely mixing documentary interviews, Brechtian fiIm-within-a-fiIm asides, Oedipal premonitions of disaster, his own avant-garde shorts, and even on-screen cartoon balloons, into a dizzying whirl of image + sound. Featuring breathtaking bIack-and-white cinematography by Tatsuo Suzuki that rivals the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, FUNERAL PARADE offers a frank, openIy erotic and unapologetic portrait of an underground community of drag queens. Whether laughing with drunken businessmen, eating ice cream with her girlfriends, or fighting in the streets with a IocaI girI gang, Peter's ravishing Eddie is something to behoId. "She has bad manners, aII she knows is coquetry," compIains her rivaI Leda but in fact, Eddie's bad manners are simply being too gorgeous for this world. Her stunning presence, in belI-bottom pants, bIack Ieather jacket and Brian Jones hair-do, is a direct threat to the sociaI order, both in the Bar Genet and in the streets of Tokyo. A key work of the Japanese New Wave and of queer cinema, FUNERAL PARADE has been restored in 4k from the original 35mm camera negative and sound elements for this 2017 re-release. |
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