Funeral Parade of Roses is a frenetic collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks that transports us to the depths of the late-'60s Tokyo underworld. Nothing appears to be off-limits in Toshio Matsumoto's controversial debut feature, including the incorporation of visual flourishes straight from the worlds of contemporary graphic-design, painting, comic-books, and animation, as well as the unflinching depiction of nudity, sex, drug use, and public toilets. But, of all the "transgressions" on display, one stands out above the rest: the film's groundbreaking and unapologetic portrayal of Japanese gay subculture.
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Funeral Parade of Roses is a frenetic collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks that transports us to the depths of the late-'60s Tokyo underworld. Nothing appears to be off-limits in Toshio Matsumoto's controversial debut feature, including the incorporation of visual flourishes straight from the worlds of contemporary graphic-design, painting, comic-books, and animation, as well as the unflinching depiction of nudity, sex, drug use, and public toilets. But, of all the "transgressions" on display, one stands out above the rest: the film's groundbreaking and unapologetic portrayal of Japanese gay subculture.
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