Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
Synopsis
While dealing drugs on the side, Gonda operates
the Genet, a gay bar in Tokyo where he has hired a stable of
transvestites to service the customers. The madame or lead "girl" of the
bar is Leda, an older, old fashioned geisha-styled transvestite with
who Gonda lives and is in a relationship. Arguably, the most popular of
the girls working at the bar now is Eddie, a younger, modern
transvestite. Like Leda, Eddie lives openly as a woman. Eddie's troubled
life includes her father having deserted the family when she was a
child, and having had a difficult relationship with her mother
following, she who mocked Eddie's ability to be the man the of the
family. Gonda enters into a sexual relationship with Eddie, who he
promises to make madame of the bar, replacing Leda in both facets of his
life, with Eddie having threatened to quit otherwise. While Leda
suspects what Gonda and Eddie are up to, Gonda tells Leda what she wants
to hear, much as he tells Eddie what she wants to hear. As this ...
