#Bara no Sōretsu

[onyearning]

[spilladabalia]

Golden Cups - This bad girl / Toshio Matsumoto - Funeral Parade of Roses

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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), Toshio Matsumoto

[ulrichgebert]

Hurrah, Drag Queens! Eddie-Puss tötet aus Eifersucht Mamma und schläft versehentlich mit seinem unbekannten Vater. Soweit so klassische Tragödie, alles in einer surrealen, subversiven und beherzt nichtlinearen Odyssee (ha!) durch den schwulen Untergrund von Tokyo in den 60er-Jahren, einschließlich kleiner Dokumentarszenen mit Interviews mit seinen authentischen Transgender-Darstellern: Peter, der Eddie spielt (und später noch Kurosawas Ran mit), findet das mit dem Inszest nicht so toll, lange bevor wir draufkommen. Es ist groß, wild und fabelhaft und sollte einer der grossen Kultfilme aller Zeiten sein, aber ich hatte noch nie was davon gehört. Dumm von mir.

[readtilyoudie]

REQUIEM OF THE ROSE KING VOLUME 1

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

Yesterday marked the ending of Requiem of the Rose King, with chapter 78 🥀

If you enjoyed this, catch the spin offs:

King of Idol: Bara-Ō no Gakuen / King of Idol: The Rose King's Academy

Bara-Ō no Sōretsu: Gaiden / Requiem of the Rose King: Side Stories

And the bonus art book:

Bara-Ō no Sōretsu Irasuto-shū: Keikyoku no Hitsugi

Other works by Aya include:

Soul Rescue

Alone

Otomen

Kokoro ni Hana wo!!

Hokusō Shinsengumi

Kōtetsu no Hana

Blank Slate

Makoto no Kuni

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薔薇の葬列 (Funeral Parade of Roses)

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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

dir. Toshio Matsumoto

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"Bara no Sōretsu" (Funeral Parade of Roses) (1960) - Toshio Matsumoto

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“I am the wound and the sword, the sacrifice and the executioner.”

薔薇の葬列 (1969) ‘Funeral Parade of Roses’.

Directed by Toshio Matsumoto.

Osamu Ogasawara - Toyosaburo Uchiyama

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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) dir. Toshio Matsumoto

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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), Toshio Matsumoto

[theprojectionroom]

Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)

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薔薇の葬列 - Funeral parade of roses (1969)

" I am the wound and the blade. Both the torturer and he who is flayed "

Matsumoto only directed a movie. But that movie was probably the work of a lifetime, and he decided not to challenge fate. He couldn't do better, he probably thought.

Funeral parade is a revolutionary movie, one that pushed every boundary far from where it previously was. I couldn't even think of a similar movie done today, especially in Japan. The topics it talks about are so many and so progressive, in a country so peculiar, where everything is considered taboo but at the same time a place where the majority of perversion has begun.

But Matsumoto never gets vulgar, his movie is so poetic, even, and particularly when it shows subject such as porn industry, prostitution, drugs and depression.

And the way Funeral parade talks about transgenders and drag queens is really Majestic. It talks about their struggle, their traumas and love, but it's never too much fixated towards their gender or sexuality, which unfortunately still happens today. It shows that they're people before being queer. Directors today should take example

The scene where Eddie puts make up on has so much impact it's unbelievable, probably my favorite from the whole movie.

My best friend suggested me this movie because it's his favorite. He's one of the few people who I really trust with taste. So I watched and I have to admit that at first it didn't really stuck with me. But the days after I kept going back to it. It was like it was haunting me. I guess that's the power of this film. Maybe it was the epical reference at the end, or maybe it was just meant to leave that trace behind, like a spray of perfume.

Dedicated to Ivan

[orbynring]

薔薇の葬列