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Shinjuku Boys

  • July 1995
  • 53mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Kim Longinotto,

    Alan Bookbinder,

    Jano Williams,

    Starring

    Gaish,

    Tatsu,

    Kazuki,

    Kumi

    ...

    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.