makotoshintaro

1. This is more like a surgical TV show than a movie. 2. Sooo slow... 3. Loved the earrings though.

I should had definitely watched cat videos on phone.

Set in late 60's Tokyo, Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses is slightly based on Oedipus Rex diving deep into Tokyo's underground gay culture. Passionate and raw, it is a wonderful, harmonized mixture of documentary elements and avant-garde cinema. The movie follows Eddie, a gay boy whom I could not stop comparing to Edie Sedgwick for obvious reasons, portrayed by Shinnosuke Ikehata (commonly known as Peter), focusing on Eddie's past, fame and rivalry with the bar's Mama. The movie's title is a play on words: roses, bara (薔薇) in Japanese, is a symbol of homosexuality and also a shortened version of barazoku (薔薇族 ), the name of Japan's first modern gay men's magazine. One of Japanese New Wave's diamonds, Funeral Parade of Roses was a major influence on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.

The old lady with the blue cardigan and the glasses, who said the most meaningful line during the whole movie should be the last one standing. And sorry IMDb but this is the most I can say about a film like that. (God, what does someone have to do here to write a review less than 5 lines?!)