An amalgam of Godardian visuals, mondo gore, 60s pop psychedelia, and gay Japanese culture, the film is a fascinating reworking of the Oedipus Rex story. Transvestite club kid Eddie is tormented by odd violent memories of his late mother burning his father's face out of a photograph, which he now saves as the only keepsake of his family.  He ís also involved in a love triangle with Gureko, a gay club owner, and Leda, the club's madam.  What follows is a narrative film punctured with man on the street interviews, experimental insertions of film leader, animation, and comic dialogue balloons popping out of character's mouths, and excessive, almost cartoonish violence.  Recently discovered in the HFA's vault, A Funeral Procession Of Roses is a rarely screened classic of Japanese New Wave cinema.