A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks (not to mention a direct influence on Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange), Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying, unapologetic journey into the nether-regions of the ‘60s Japanese gay subculture. Nothing is taboo: neither the incorporation of visual flourishes straight from the worlds of painting, comic-books, and animation; nor the unflinching depiction of nudity, sex, drug-use, and public-toilets. With its mixture of purely narrative sequences and documentary footage, Funeral Parade of Roses tests, and even eradicates, the boundaries between fiction and reality, desire and experience, zig-zagging between pathos and hilarity to create a cinematic howl in the face of social, moral, and artistic convention.