
Originaltitel: Bara no sôretsu
Alternativtitel: Funeral Parade of Roses
Herstellungsland: Japan / 1969
Regie: Toshio Matsumoto
Darsteller: Peter, Shôtarô Akiyama, Emiko Azuma, Toshiya Fujita
Story:
Cross-dressing club-kid Eddie (played by real-life transvestite entertainer extraordinaire Peter) vies with a rival drag-queen (Osamu Ogasawara) for the favours of drug-dealing cabaret-manager Gonda (Yoshio Tsuchiya). Passions escalate and blood begins to flow - before all tensions are released in a jolting climax (that prefigures by nearly thirty years Tsai Ming-liang's similarly scandalous The River). A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks (not to mention a direct influence on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange), Funeral Parade Of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late '60s Tokyo underworld. In Toshio Matsumoto's controversial debut feature, seemingly nothing is taboo. (quelle: play.com)