Drama 1965 180 mins Director: Akira Kurosawa. Get funding to progress my creative career. Funeral Parade of Roses (Blu-ray) Directed by Toshio Matsumoto. Starring Tom Hiddleston, a family holiday to the Isles of Scilly sees fractures emerge in this sun-filled drama from Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir). Such deliciously vain decadence pervades much of Funeral Parade of Roses, and the film’s combination of cynicism and youthful exuberance anticipates the punk rock cinema that would arrive at the next decade’s end. The film is part of this Summer’s BFI JAPAN 2020, a major new season which will include nine collections of Japanese film being made available on the platform. Also out on BFI … In this stylish, dark crime thriller, a policeman’s complex web of underworld relationships is threatened by an internal affairs investigator. Drama 1968 101 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Released: 18th May 2020. Scrolling through my watchlist on this rainy day, I soon came upon Funeral Parade of Roses and decided that today would be a good day to delve into this mysteriously entrancing film. As Eddie’s grip on sanity begins to loosen, Matsumoto’s camera spends more and more time joined to her hip, and the sense of psychological interiority is only bolstered by the expressive, avant-garde editing style. A celebration of youth and subcultures, a condemnation of intolerance, and a one-of-kind cinematic experience, Funeral Parade of Roses is a kaleidoscopic masterpiece and one of the most intoxicating films of the 60s. £19.99. Studio: BFI. Funeral Parade of Roses (薔薇の葬列 Bara no Sōretsu) is a 1969 Japanese drama directed and written by Toshio Matsumoto, as a loose adaptation of Oedipus Rex set in the gay underground of 1960's Japan.Considered an exemplar of Japanese New Wave, the film combines arthouse, documentary, and experimental techniques, blending fact with fiction to portray the struggles … Toshio Matsumoto's kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most intoxicating films of the 60s. “Funeral Parade of Roses” will be released on Blu-ray – the first time it has been available on Blu-ray in the UK – on 18 May 2020, and will simultaneously be available for … Drama 1981 145 mins Director: Seijun Suzuki. 12 days. While many, due to Freud’s lasting impact on society, will be tempted to classify Matsumoto’s narrative as Freudian or, at least, as a parody of Freud’s Oedipus complex, the … Category: World Cinema. Eddie, by contrast, is all mini-skirts and false eyelashes, adorning herself in groovy Carnaby Street-esque fashions and getting stoned to psych-rock records with her hippie friends. Amid a war between Taiwanese Triads and Japanese Yakuza, a mixed-race cop hunts a psychotic criminal who traffics in children's organs. But it’s the disturbing revelations about Eddie’s upbringing and adolescence – which gradually reveal themselves across the film’s unconventional flashback structure – that emerge as the story’s dark heart. In the closing months of 1969, Funeral Parade of Roses released with more of a whimper than a bang. Overview Overview Related Related. Horror 2019 89 mins Director: Johannes Nyholm, If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a very nasty surprise…, Fantasy 1987 128 mins Director: Wim Wenders. Drama 2010 109 mins Director: Joanna Hogg. “Funeral Parade of Roses” will be released on Blu-ray – the first time it has been available on Blu-ray in the UK – on 18 May 2020, and will simultaneously be available for rental and download-to-own on iTunes and Amazon Prime. It’s their bitter rivalry, both professional and romantic, that forms the backbone of the loose, non-linear plot. While the content was far ahead of its time, the film remained obscure to critics and audiences alike. A one-of-a-kind counter-culture classic. From Funeral Parade of Roses [薔薇の葬列 Bara no Sōretsu]Toshio Matsumoto 1969 It may, from time to time, take on the look and feel of a Jean-Luc Godard film (it certainly owes much to the nouvelle vague) but Funeral Parade of Roses offers a vital alternative to the rigid heteronormativity that still pervaded much of the output then being made by even the most rebellious of filmmakers. A milestone in both the Japanese New Wave and world cinema as a whole, Funeral Parade of Roses is also a landmark film in the queer cinema canon. Comedy 2008 237 mins Director: Sion Sono. Funeral Parade of Roses is an absolute force of avant-garde filmmaking. Peter . All rights reserved. What’s the story: In Tokyo, 1969, transsexual Eddie (Pîtâ) attempts to forget the traumatic events of her past. Funeral Parade of Roses actively explores the performative and constructed nature of gender whether through the androgyny and ambiguity of sex within the context of the film, the human body or even humor in the form of female-coded characters in the men’s restroom, while using the limitless nature of visual expression and experimentation within the film to argue for its limitations and … With Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimi Jô, Koichi Nakamura. Berserk Analysis Part 3 - Falcon of the Millennium Empire (1 of 3) - Duration: 35:08. The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan. Contact bFI directly to find out more about planned dates and terms. Crime 1989 103 mins Director: Takeshi Kitano. Format: Blu-ray. Acclaimed Japanese director Sabu (Happiness, Miss Zombie) with this frenetic, kinetic action comedy set on the bustling streets of Tokyo, the story of three losers brought together by fate. Joanna Hogg's sleek and minimalist comedy about a pair of artists and their emotional attachment to their ultra-modernist apartment. Eddie . A BFI Player release will follow this summer as part of BFI JAPAN 2020, a major new season which will include nine collections of Japanese film being made available on the platform. Biopic 1988 84 mins Director: Terence Davies. BFI London Film Festival: Funeral Parade Of Roses. Directed by Toshio Matsumoto. Presented in a stunning new restoration. BFI Slate for Spring 2020—New 4K Tokyo Story, Funeral Parade of Roses, Takeshi Kitano Collection, The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice, Women Make Film, The Year of the Sex Olympics, Central Office of Information film collection, The Battle of the Sexes, The Guinea Pig, Friendship’s Death & Little Joe At the film’s outset, we watch her take one of the all-time great cinematic showers, utterly in love with her own youth and beauty. It will be available on BFI Player’s subscription service later this summer as part of a major new collection of Japanese films, BFI JAPAN 2020, which launches on 11 May and … The film shines a spotlight on the ‘gay boy’ subculture of late-1960s Japan, specifically the gender-nonconforming hostesses of a Tokyo gay bar. Her suspicions are well founded, as Gonda is not only cheating but also planning to ditch her entirely and cement Eddie both as his new permanent squeeze and as a younger, hipper queen bee of Bar Genet. A beautiful and contemplative portrait of grief from Cannes-winning filmmaker Naomi Kawase (Sweet Bean, Still the Water). Transgender actor Pîtâ gives an astonishing performance as Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet – where she’s ignited a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda for the attentions of club owner Gonda. In his brutal directorial debut, ‘Beat' Takeshi Kitano plays a renegade cop who frequently resorts to violence and unethical methods to get results. Drama 2013 105 mins Director: Joanna Hogg. While significant films of the concurrent French New Wave, or those beginning to emerge from a burgeoning New Hollywood, often displayed either chronic incuriosity or outright apathy towards the lives and experiences of queer people (despite the lifting of many of the censorial rules that had previously quashed on-screen queerness), Matsumoto’s film is unapologetically queer. Drama 2007 97 mins Director: Naomi Kawase. Like many other filmmakers that produced radical, challenging work during the Japanese New Wave of the '60s and '70s, "Funeral" director/writer Toshio Matsumoto was influenced by the films of the French New Wave, especially the work of Jean-Luc … Take a walk on the subversive side with Toshio Matsumoto’s wild, kaleidoscopic vision of the underground scene in 1960s Japan. Instead, we are invited inside her head, her memories and her trauma. Transgender actor Pîtâ gives an astonishing performance as Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet – where she’s ignited a violent love-triangle … 1:01. A milestone in both the Japanese New Wave and world cinema as a whole, Funeral Parade of Roses is also a landmark film in the queer cinema canon. Content warning: this review has references to transphobia and homophobia. “Few movies are as redolent of their times as Funeral Parade of Roses, a 1969 exemplar of Japanese … ©2021 British Film Institute. ... BFI distribution will issue at least 2 releases as part of the season - although theatrical activity is now undated due to the impact of the pandemic on venue closures ad the release schedule. A celebration of youth and subcultures, a condemnation of intolerance, and a one-of-kind cinematic experience, Funeral Parade of Roses is a kaleidoscopic masterpiece and one of the most intoxicating films of the 60s. In the end, though, this is Eddie’s story. By the time the film reaches its grisly and shocking final images, Matsumoto has rendered Eddie’s fall from grace both bitterly ironic and deeply poignant. • Funeral Parade of Roses is available on digital platforms from 18 May and is part of the BFI’s Japan 2020 season. Certification: 18. The restoration looks great! Made at a point in cinema history when radically-minded filmmakers the world over were testing, breaking and redefining the limits of good filmmaking and good taste, Matsumoto’s movie attacks on both fronts with an irrepressible fervour, creating a film that has retained its power to surprise, delight and shock more than 50 years later. Cast. Dark drama studded with pitch black comedy from Małgorzata Szumowska (Mug, The Other Lamb, Never Gonna Snow Again), about a successful photographer whose life unravels spectacularly. Later this month The BFI will releases Toshio Matsumoto ‘s cult film Funeral Parade Of Roses on Blu-Ray for the first time. 1960s Japan receives an electrifying charge of counter cultural subversion in this visually striking, anti-establishment classic. Note: This 2-disc version limited to 3000 copies only. It features real footage of late-1960s life and interviews with a … One Festival. Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) clip - on BFI Blu-ray from 18 May | BFI - Duration: 1:01. Funeral Parade of Roses. © 2021 British Film Institute. Funeral Parade of Roses will be released on Blu-ray – the first time it has been available on Blu-ray in the UK – on 18 May 2020, and will simultaneously be available for rental and download-to-own on iTunes and Amazon Prime. Leda (Osamu Ogasawara), the reigning madame of Bar Genet, begins to suspect Gonda (Yoshio Tsuchiya), her boyfriend and the bar’s owner, of sleeping with glamorous up-and-coming hostess Eddie (played by Peter, a famous trans entertainer in Japan who later appeared in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran) behind her back. Registered charity 287780, Answering questions from the screen sectors, Why Funeral Parade of Roses is a landmark of Japanese queer cinema. A scandalous, kaleidoscopic vision of Tokyo’s 1960s queer underground, FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969) is an electrifying collision of the avant garde, trash aesthetics, documentary and drama. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Registered charity 287780, Sign up for all the latest news from BFI Player, Contains strong violence and sex and drug references. Kurosawa’s episodic, poignant story of a 19th-century doctor (Toshiro Mifune) working in a clinic for the poor and his tumultuous friendship with young intern. Funeral Parade of Roses is released on blu-ray in the UK on 18th of May courtesy of the BFI in a new 4K restoration. The movie is receiving a re-release via the BFI’s Japan season; the season should be showing at London’s National Film Theatre, but instead its films are streaming on the BFI Player and/or are being released on DVD. Funeral Parade of Roses is a celebration of youth and subcultures, a condemnation of intolerance, and a one-of-kind cinematic experience. BFI 2,251 views. Barcode: 5035673013809. Avant garde queer/proto-punk drama "Funeral Parade of Roses" is simultaneously a product of, and very much ahead of its time. In this sense Funeral Parade of Roses has as much in common with the creeping psychodrama of Roman Polanksi’s Repulsion (1965) as it does with the arty irreverence of Derek Jarman’s Jubilee (1978). Toshio Matsumoto’s controversial debut Funeral Parade of Roses also receives its UK Blu-ray premiere in late spring. She’s perhaps more comfortable in exhibiting an ‘inbetweenness’ in her gender identity too, at one point openly peeing at a public urinal alongside two of her girlfriends (in an instantly iconic tableau frame). Road movie 1975 99 mins Director: Wim Wenders. Please download the latest version of the BFI Player app (3.4), AirPlay is now enabled and casting functionality has been improved. This is perhaps the film’s most radical and forward-thinking choice: Eddie is not treated purely as a spectacle, an exotic ‘other’ to be gawped at.