Funeral Parade of Roses

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.