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 journey into the nether-regions of the late-�60s Tokyo underworld. In Toshio Matsumoto�s controversial debut feature, seemingly nothing is taboo: neither the incorporation of visual flourishes straight from the worlds of contemporary graphic-design, painting, comic-books, and animation; nor the unflinching depiction of nudity, sex, drug-use, and public-toilets. But of all the �transgressions� here on display, perhaps one in particular stands out the most: the film�s groundbreaking and unapologetic portrayal of Japanese gay subculture.