Essential Arthouse: Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) at Moxie Cinema

Director Toshio Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas. No less than Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange. The Essential Arthouse series returns in June with the beautiful, tragic, unapologetic and glorious FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (1969) - screening at The Moxie Wednesday, June 17 at 7pm. Tickets on sale now!
In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of another kind of history between them. (NR, 105 min.)