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Aro Recommended Funeral Parade of Roses

 

aka: Bara no Soretsu
Japan 1969, 105 minutes
Dir. Toshio Matsumoto
In Japanese with English subtitles
Rating: [R18]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Cult, Classics / LGBT

Topics: Gender-bender, Experimental.

Feat. Shinnosuke Ikehata (aka Peter), Yoshio Tsuchiya

 

Aroview: A bold and significant product of the Japanese New Wave that loosely transposes Oedipus Rex to the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo with a transgender protagonist played by the beautiful 'Peter'.

Part docu-drama, part surrealist experiment, it possesses a striking black-and-white aesthetic and has many memorable scenes, some seemingly directly influential (to put it politely) on Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

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DVD Features

*Full length audio commentary by the director Toshio Matsumoto
*Video interview with director Toshio Matsumoto (23m.)
*Promotional material gallery

 

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