Bara no sōretsu : Funeral parade of roses /
薔薇の葬列 Funeral parade of roses /
Eddie and the transvestite Leda both have sexual desires on bar manager and drug dealer Gonda. Gonda fears Leda will expose him to the police if he does not give in to his advances. When Leda commits suicide, Eddie and Gonda are free to engage in their homosexual yearnings for each other. When Gonda...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Language Notes: | In Japanese with English subtitles. |
| Published: |
[Tokyo] :
Eureka,
[2006]
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| Series: | Master of cinema series ;
no. 32. |
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| Summary: | Eddie and the transvestite Leda both have sexual desires on bar manager and drug dealer Gonda. Gonda fears Leda will expose him to the police if he does not give in to his advances. When Leda commits suicide, Eddie and Gonda are free to engage in their homosexual yearnings for each other. When Gonda discovers he is Eddie's father, he kills himself with a knife. A distraught Eddie uses the same knife to cut his own eyes. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1969. Special features: New director-approved transfer from the director's personal print ; full length audio commentary by the director Toshio Matsumoto ; video interview wih director Toshio Matsumoto ; promotional material gallery and original Japanese trailer ; 40-page book with new essays by Jim O'Rourke and Roland Domenig. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet. |
| Format: | DVD produced for region 2 (Japan, Europe, South Africa, and Middle East (including Egypt). User must have a DVD player that will play region 2 DVDs. |
| Production Credits: | Photography, Tatsuo Suzuki ; music, Joji Yuasa. |