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    Funeral Parade of Roses - DIRECTOR IN PERSON!

    Funeral Parade of Roses - DIRECTOR IN PERSON!

    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    September 18, 2011

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    Directed by Toshio Matsumoto, Appearing in Person.
    With Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Toyosaburo Uchiyama
    Japan 1969, 35mm, b/w, 105 min. Japanese with English subtitles

    A carnivalesque melding of documentary verité and avant-garde psychedelia, Funeral Parade of Roses offers a shocking and ecstatic journey through the nocturnal underworld of Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood, following the strange misadventures of a rebellious drag queen fending off his/her rivals. Often cited as a major inspiration for Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Matsumoto's breakthrough film is a visually audacious and lyrically abstract testament to the vertiginous daring of the postwar Japanese avant-garde art and film scenes. Matsumoto orchestrates a series of quite astonishing visual set pieces, including actual performances by the influential Fluxus-inspired street theater groups, the Zero Jigen and Genpei Akasegawa.


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        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
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        September 18, 2011

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        7pm

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