Shinjuku Boys 1995

A film about love and gender.

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Documentary

This documentary is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo, Japan - where the hosts are transgender men. They can only make their living as hosts in a nightclub with other wannabes like them. The young women who come there often have relationships with them but the underlying fear is whether such a relationship can withstand the pressures on a girl to get married and have children. All three boys deal with this in different ways. These three hosts, the Shinjuku Boys, take us into their lives.

Release Date 1995-07-01
Runtime 53m
Directors Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams, Kim Longinotto
Producers Kim Longinotto, Alan Bookbinder
Writer