SilverFuture

FLIMMERFUTURE*sunday,23.8., start 8pm

dear passengers,

this sunday we have a rare treat for you, an early classic of japanese
queer cinema:

Funeral Parade Of Roses (Bara no soretsu, Japan 1969)
Japanese with english subtitles

A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks
(not to mention a direct influence on Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork
Orange), Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey
into the nether-regions of the late-’60s Tokyo underworld. In Toshio
Matsumoto’s controversial debut feature, seemingly nothing is taboo:
neither the incorporation of visual flourishes straight from the
worlds of contemporary graphic-design, painting, comic-books, and
animation; nor the unflinching depiction of nudity, sex, drug-use, and
public-toilets. But of all the “transgressions” here on display,
perhaps one in particular stands out the most: the film’s
groundbreaking and unapologetic portrayal of Japanese gay subculture

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