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Peter, Yoshio Tsuchiya

This violent dramatic bloodbath concerns a love triangle in a gay bar in Tokyo. Eddie (Peter) and the transvestite Leda (Osamu Ogasawara) both have sexual designs on bar manager and drug dealer Gonda ... read more read more...(Yoshio Tsuchiya). Gonda fears Leda will expose him to the police if he does not give in to his/her advances. When Leda commits suicide, Eddie and Gonda are free to engage in their homosexual yearnings for each other. When Gonda discovers he is Eddie's father, he kills himself with a knife. A distraught Eddie then uses the same knife to cut his own eyes out. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 45 min.

Directed by: Toshio Matsumoto

Release Date: October 29, 1970

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  • Saxia
    October 1, 2008
    Saxia
    Quite an experience, and a new one for me for that matter. I've watched all the extra's on the DVD, including Matsumoto's interview and commentary on the film, and that made it a little more accessible for me :)
    Matsumoto rejected a lot of boys for the part of Eddie, and I totall... read morey agree with him that Peter is perfect for the part.
    What can I say to give you an impression on what the movie is about? It's a "modern (Greek) tragedy" inspired on Oedipus Rex. Although I did connect to Eddie, I didn't really connect to rest of the story, but maybe that's because I'm totally new to the whole avant-garde stuff. There are some beautiful aesthetic scenes in the movie, and I love the short interviews that he cut through the movie.
  • fb1142797643
    January 16, 2012
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    "Funeral Parade of Roses" has extra notoriety because its use of depraved, sped-up footage apparently inspired a similar "A Clockwork Orange" sex scene. But if this is your reason for seeing the movie, don't bother. You won't find the resemblance too striking.

    This Japanese film... read more is not easy to watch, but its radical style will be familiar to Nagisa Oshima fans. Director Toshio Matsumoto throws in every jagged, disorienting trick he can manage, including jump cuts, flashbacks, captions, repeated scenes, dialogue with cartoon bubbles, an avant-garde score (murky variations on the children's song "Did You Ever See a Lassie?"), shots of the camera crew, bizarre inserted imagery (a flower stuck in a nude man's behind is a particular favorite) and cast interviews. Even the film's title is perversely withheld until 18 minutes have passed.

    There is not much story -- what's more important is the experimental filmmaking and the prominence of real-life transvestites. The homosexual love-triangle plot finds drag queens Eddie and Leda (both first-time actors) competing for the affections of club-owner Gonda (Yoshio Tsuchiya). The charismatic, unusually "attractive" Eddie is also nagged by traumatic childhood memories. But most of the screen time just depicts incidental behavior such as sex play, dancing, fighting, marijuana use, political protest and carousing in bars. This lack of narrative momentum can be wearying, but the shocking climax is a significant compensation.
  • jimbotender
    November 5, 2009
    jimbotender
    What if writing novelties of say...Proust or Xingjian were to be translated as a neon mural of experimental musical compositions...add some Oedipal symbols,disjointed time-frames,oh..and vertical motives of multi-sexuality!
    There you have it,a "blow-up" of docu-confession,Matsumo... read moreto's personal ode to youth,highlighting an era of wine and roses (or if you like: opium and proses)
  • engrymfilm
    December 18, 2008
    engrymfilm
    Wonderful. The film interrupts itself at times to interview the actors themselves about their own sexuality while being contained in an experimental bubble reflecting the Director's one of a kind imagination.
  • columbiatch
    March 8, 2008
    columbiatch
    A stylistically fascinating film that gives an unabashed look at the gay/transsexual counterculture in Japan during the 60's. The narrative is often intercut by self-reflexive interviews clips of the film cast, which works wonderfully with the part of the story concerning a wann... read moreabe experimental filmmaker. I felt the ending was rather contrived just so that it could reference Sophocles.

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August 11, 2011
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