sode fifty-one picks up where we left off exploring queer focused cult films. This time Alec and Derek take a look at Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 kaleidoscopic reimagining of Oedipus Rex, Funeral Parade Of Roses (薔薇の葬列). Eddie, played by Japanese trans star Peter, works her way up the hierarchy of late 60’s Tokyo gay bars, by dancing, screwing and serving killer looks with her band of fellow queers and hippies, while gradually sinking into the depths of familial tragedy. This experimental masterpiece of the Japanese new wave, mixes genres and cinematic techniques, and would prove a major influence on Stanley Kubrick’s classic A Clockwork Orange. It’s power hasn’t dimmed in the fifty years since its release.