Funeral Parade Of Roses Blu-Ray

Director: Toshio Matsumoto

Transgender actor Peter gives an astonishing performance as Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet, where she has embarked on a violent love triangle with the reigning drag queen Leda in order to get the attention of club owner Gonda. Matsumoto, one of Japan's leading experimental filmmakers, bends and distorts time, freely mixing documentary interviews, Brechtian film-within-a-film asides, Oedipal premonitions of disaster, his own avant-garde short films, and even cartoon balloons on the screen. Funeral Parade of Roses is a tribute to youth and subcultures, a condemnation of intolerance, and a unique cinematic experience. A kaleidoscopic masterpiece and one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the 1960s.

Extras

• 4K digital restoration, presented in High Definition

   

• Featurette commentary by Chris D, punk poet, singer, actor, film historian, and author of Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film 
• Original Japanese trailer (1969) 
• American theatrical trailer (2017)

   

• Subtitles: : English