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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Funeral Parade of Roses is a 1969 film from Japan directed by Toshio Matsumoto.The central character is Eddie, a male who dresses up and lives as a female—in Japanese parlance, a "gay boy". Eddie, who is referred to throughout the movie as "she", works at a gay bar called the Genet. The Genet is a Local Hangout where gay Japanese businessmen can meet and hook up with pretty young gay boys like Eddie. Cute young Eddie is the rival to the older "madame" of the Genet, a cross-dresser named Leda. As it happens, both Eddie and Leda are in relationships with the owner of the Genet, a middle-aged Straight Gay man named Gondo. Eddie and Leda's professional and personal rivalry leads to a confrontation.The above description, while accurate, does not do justice to the surreal immersion in madness that is Funeral Parade of Roses. The film is filled with bizarre, disturbing imagery. There are radical tonal shifts, from nightmarish terror to comic slapstick to horrifying violence, often at lightning speed. The timeline is completely scrambled. Sometimes the film shifts from fictional narrative to quasi-documentary, as the actors are interviewed out-of-character about their lives as cross-dressers and transsexuals, and even what they think about the movie they're actually in. There is a sub-plot concerning a long-haired director of weird avant-garde movies and the gang of kooks that hang out with him. And sprinkled throughout are flashbacks to years before, showing Eddie as a young man living alone with his mother—flashbacks that come to a terrifying conclusion.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })It all turns out to be an adaptation of Oedipus the King!The actor who plays Eddie went by the stage name of "Peter" (or "Pîtâ" in Japanese). 16 years after this production Peter appeared as an androgynous version of the Fool in Akira Kurosawa's Ran. | |
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Ambiguous Gender Identity: It's not clear just what the gay boys view themselves as. Eddie is referred to as "she" throughout the movie. Leda for her part says that she (?) enjoys dressing and living as a woman, but when she's asked about actually becoming a woman, she says she doesn't want to "go that far." | |
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Anachronic Order: The film sort of has a beginning, and it more or less comes to an end, but along the way the time frame is completely scrambled. Interspersed with the main narratives are flashbacks to Eddie as a young man with his mother, stuck in a deeply toxic mother-child relationship. Those flashbacks themselves are arranged in a jumbled order, as we see how Eddie's mother met her tragic end, then see other flashbacks from even earlier showing how she emotionally abused her son. The "present" story is scrambled as well. One of the first scenes has Leda on a street corner spotting Gondo and Eddie as they drive away together. A good 40 minutes later, after much of the 1969 part of the story has already been told, we jump back to that scene again. | |
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