Funeral Parade Of Roses BFI Brian Trenchard-Smith

Brian Trenchard-Smith

37:1) / DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / 1942 / B&W / Not Rated / +/- 61 Minutes

and slaves—forcing him to choose between selling out and maintaining his self-respect

PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins

Funeral Parade Of Roses BFI Brian Trenchard-SmithLong 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 world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. No less than Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.