6/17/17 review of film Funeral Parade of Roses, dir. by Toshio Matsumoto

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the film Funeral Parade of Roses, directed by Toshio Matsumoto.

The film gives a summary of the film. It discusses the performance by the actor Peter. It discusses the New Wave aspects of the film, as well as the film's occasional tendency to get derivative. It discusses how the film is innovative in its depiction of trans people, as well as how the film is pretty unique in mentioning film legend Jonas Mekas. It discusses the film's depiction of Shinjuku and of Tokyo's underground art culture, and how the film may have laid the groundwork for other Japanese films.

I saw this film at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema's Sloan's Lake theater in Denver, Colorado.