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Funeral Parade of Roses remains, to this day, Toshio Matsumoto's best-known film and a key work to understand the Japanese cinema new wage of the 60s and 70s. Through a unique visual narrative, the film introduces the viewer to the nocturnal world of drag queens in the 1960s Tokyo, where drugs, alcohol and sex were consumed without moderation.
In this interpretation of Oedipus myth, the movie explores the question of guilt, of destiny, and of free will within a deviant context in the after-war Japan. The story is therefore full of bitter feelings, humiliation and historical responsibility.
A landmark of queer Cinema it represents the first feature film of the Japanese director Toshio Matsumoto. Mixing genres and temporalities somewhere between fiction, documentary and animation the movie gained even more popularity when it served as an inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
In this interpretation of Oedipus myth, the movie explores the question of guilt, of destiny, and of free will within a deviant context in the after-war Japan. The story is therefore full of bitter feelings, humiliation and historical responsibility.
A landmark of queer Cinema it represents the first feature film of the Japanese director Toshio Matsumoto. Mixing genres and temporalities somewhere between fiction, documentary and animation the movie gained even more popularity when it served as an inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
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Cast:
Peter, Osamu Ogasawara , Yoshio Tsuchiya ,Emiko Azuma , Toyosaburo Uchiyama -
Original Title:
Bara No Soretsu -
Country:
Japan -
Year:
1969 - 105' JP, EN, Subtitles: PT
Director
Toshio Matsumoto
Toshio Matsumoto was born in the city of Nagoya, Japan in 1932. In 1955 he graduated from Tokyo University with a bachelor degree in Aesthetics and soon after that made his first short film, Ginrin. His most famous movies include works such as Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), Shura (1971), War at the age of sixteen (1973) and Dogura Magura (1988).
Matsumoto was an all around artist and worked in different mediums such as photography and Academia. He taught at the Kyoto University of Art and Design where he was also dean of Arts. There he taught and served as mentor for many upcoming artists such as Takashi Ito. In the early 1980s he was also a professor at the Kyushu Institute of Art and Design. Matsumoto lived in Tokyo until his death on April 12th 2017.
Matsumoto was an all around artist and worked in different mediums such as photography and Academia. He taught at the Kyoto University of Art and Design where he was also dean of Arts. There he taught and served as mentor for many upcoming artists such as Takashi Ito. In the early 1980s he was also a professor at the Kyushu Institute of Art and Design. Matsumoto lived in Tokyo until his death on April 12th 2017.
