Funeral Parade of Roses
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Toshio Matsumoto Run Time: 105 min. Release Year: 1969 Language: Japanese
Starring: Emiko Azuma, Koichi Nakamura, Osamu Ogasawara, Shinnosuke Ikehata, Yoshio Tsuchiya
Funeral Parade Of Roses is back this June for a one-night-only presentation!
In the neon-lit underworld of 1960s Tokyo, Funeral Parade of Roses follows Eddie (played by gender-nonconforming pop icon Pîtâ), a young transgender nightclub performer navigating love, identity, and rivalry in the city’s queer nightlife scene. As Eddie rises in popularity at a gay bar called Genet, she becomes entangled in a love triangle with Gonda, the bar’s manager, and Leda, her older rival and Gonda’s lover.
An electrifying collision of French New Wave, underground documentary, and psychedelic experimentalism, Funeral Parade Of Roses is perfect for our Pride Month programming series this year.
This screening will feature a video intro by Willow Catelyn Maclay, co-author of the book Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness. Here’s a link to purchase it: https://arvidabookco.com/products/corpses-fools-and-monsters-the-history-and-future-of-transness-in-cinema?_pos=1&_psq=corp&_ss=e&_v=1.0