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1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Osamu Ogasawara, Peter, Yoshio Tsuchiya |
| Event |
Originally produced by Arbelos Films in 1969. |
| Summary |
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. No less than Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic *A Clockwork Orange*. 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, from *Seven Samuri* and *Yojimbo*). *"You will walk away from Matsumoto's film with a newfound appreciation of what movies can be." - Simon Abrams, **RogerEbert.com*** |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
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Motion pictures, Japanese.
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Asians.
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Foreign films.
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Motion Pictures.
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Drama.
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Experimental films.
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Motion pictures.
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Queer cinema.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Matsumoto, Toshio, film director.
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Ogasawara, Osamu, actor.
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, Peter, actor.
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Tsuchiya, Yoshio, actor.
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Arbelos Films (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
5793469 Kanopy |
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