See this film series: For My Crushed Right Eye: The Visionary Films Of Toshio Matsumoto at the HFA

The title of the HFA's retrospective For My Crushed Right Eye: The Visionary Films Of Toshio Matsumoto suggests a messier version of the infamous razor blade scene in Buñuel's Un chien andalou. The veteran Japanese director's work lives up to the comparison, challenging conventions with his formal experimentation and transgressive subjects as much as Buñuel did with his surrealism. The series starts with Funeral Parade Of Roses (1969), a drag queen's journey through the night world of Tokyo's Shinjuku district, a film said to be an inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Matsumoto will appear in person at the screening in the Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge | Sunday, September 18 @ 7 pm | $9; $7 students, seniors | 617.495.4700 or hcl.harvard.edu/hfa.