SAT JUN 24, 2023 1:00 PM FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Pride’s a Drag! Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: In Japanese with English subtitles. Director Toshio Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. An unknown club dancer at the time, transgender actor Peter (from Kurosawa’s RAN) gives an astonishing Edie Sedgwick/Warhol superstar-like performance as hot young thing Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet — where she’s ignited a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda (Osamu Ogasawara) for the attentions of club owner Gonda (played by Kurosawa regular Yoshio Tsuchiya). FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Arbelos Films COUNTRY: Japan