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Funeral Parade of Roses

Original title: Bara no sôretsu
  • 19691969
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
6.1K
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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
  • Drama
The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
6.1K
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  • Director
    • Toshio Matsumoto
  • Writer
    • Toshio Matsumoto
  • Stars
    • Pîtâ
    • Osamu Ogasawara
    • Yoshimi Jô
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  • Director
    • Toshio Matsumoto
  • Writer
    • Toshio Matsumoto
  • Stars
    • Pîtâ
    • Osamu Ogasawara
    • Yoshimi Jô
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    • 22User reviews
    • 71Critic reviews
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    Pîtâ
    Pîtâ
    • Eddieas Eddie
    Osamu Ogasawara
    • Ledaas Leda
    Yoshimi Jô
    • Jimias Jimi
    Koichi Nakamura
    • Jujuas Juju
    Flamenco Umeji
    • Grecoas Greco
    Saako Oota
    • Marias Mari
    Tarô Manji
    • Noraas Nora
    Toyosaburo Uchiyama
    • Guevaraas Guevara
    Mikio Shibayama
    • Philosopheras Philosopher
    Wataru Hikonagi
    • Sabuas Sabu
    Fuchisumi Gomi
    • Piroas Piro
    Chieko Kobayashi
    • Okeias Okei
    Yô Satô
    • Radonas Radon
    Keiichi Takenaga
    • Humpbackas Humpback
    Mamoru Hirata
    Nagatoshi Sakamoto
    Kazuhiko Kura
    Akira Hanaue
    • Director
      • Toshio Matsumoto
    • Writer
      • Toshio Matsumoto
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    • Trivia
      'The Funeral Parade of Roses' gave Stanley Kubrick several visual and aural inspirations for his adaptation of 'A Clockwork Orange'.
    • Goofs
      All entries contain spoilers
    • Quotes

      Eddie: This is my first movie and I'm interested. My circumstances are like his. That's one reason. And the gay life is portrayed beautifully.

    • Connections
      Edited from Ecstasis (1969)
    • Soundtracks
      O du lieber Augustin

    User reviews22

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    Buñuel on the steroids
    I didn't know anything about this movie when a friend of mine recommended it in the most enthusiastic way. The guy is a a very young movie buff, with a keen interest in quality movies (experimental, avant-garde, new wave, independent, iconoclast, unorthodox, stuff like that). I share his interests (despite my old age), and any discussion we have is real brainstorming. Two days ago he told me about planning to organize kind of jam-session with friends of his age to watch a battery of movies (I declined the invitation: No Country for Old Men). "Funeral Procession of Roses" was mentioned in this context.

    Back home I found references about the movie on the web, then a copy of the film on you Tube, with Spanish subtitles. I stayed long in night to watch the movie. Really a great cinematic experience. As I said, I didn't know anything about it, nor about director Toshio Matsumoto. A movie from 1969, belonging to the "Nuberu Bagu", the Japanese New Wave, recalling all I knew about that period in the history of Nippon cinema, first of all bringing back to my memory the four or five movies by Oshima that I had the chance to watch.

    You say "Nuberu Bagu", you say Buñuel on the steroids; and the film of Matsumoto is no exception: the ending scene of "Funeral Procession of Roses" is a direct reference to the beginning of "Un Chien Andalou": tribute paid to the famous scene from Buñuel, also creative re-enactment, also shifting the sense of it toward new territory, toward Buñuel encountering Aeschylus and Sophocles on a street in Tokyo among busy passers-by.

    It's not a movie for the sissies, this "Funeral Procession of Roses". It acts on multiple strata, and each strata is challenging. A movie solidly placed in the underground culture, exploring the gay universe - a night club of sorts with two drag queens in bitter conflict, the club owner trying to keep the balance between them. All this approached with a raw Neorealist eye, à la Fellini, à la Juan Antonio Bardem. Over the plot comes a documentary, every now and then the action is stopped and one or other of the actors is interviewed: a movie about trans genders, played by trans genders, how do they view their sexual condition, how do they relate with the movie they play in. Is it a documentary about a gay movie on the making? Is it just a documentary about the LGBT condition, using feature sequences to emphasize some points? Actually everything in the movie is left in an indeterminate state, and this is on purpose. Is it a feature or a documentary? Are the actors playing actors, a movie within a movie? Are those guys trans genders, or girls impersonating trans genders, or what? Is the paradigm of Oedipus (re-enacted in the movie in a quirky way) just what we know it is? Is this a supremely iconoclastic interpretation of Augusto Monterosso's "La cucaracha soñadora" - moved in a Tokyo gay bar of the sixties? ("There was a cockroach named Gregor Samsa who was dreaming he was a cockroach named Franz Kafka who was dreaming he was an author writing some story about a clerk named Gregor Samsa who was dreaming he was a cockroach"). Gosh, no!

    And I think this is the ultimate meaning of the Funeral Procession of Roses: it speaks us about the frailty of our certitudes: be it reality versus illusion of reality, be it gender strict determination, be it our ultimate identity. "Mis circunstancias son como las suyas. Ésa es una de las razones"... Yep, not for the sissies.
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    • Release date
      • October 29, 1970 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Languages
      • Japanese
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Funeral Procession of Roses
    • Filming locations
      • Tokyo, Japan
    • Production companies
      • Art Theatre Guild (ATG)
      • Matsumoto Production Company
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,114
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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