Metrograph

An exuberant hodgepodge, mixed-media artist Toshio Matsumoto’s crazy-quilt first feature—he would describe its structure as something like picking up the pieces of a mirror after dropping it on the floor—transposes the Oedipus story to the intersection of Shinjuku’s hippie and “gay boy” subcultures as Eddie (played by the androgynous entertainer Peter) parlays an affair with a local drug dealer into the position of madame at the Club Genet, much to the chagrin of Leda (Osamu Ogasawara), longtime holder of that title. Adding to the general air of giddy artifice and avant-garde experimentation are performances by Zero Jigen and Genpei Akasegawa, two Fluxus-adjacent street theater groups then prominent in Tokyo’s anything-goes underground art scene.