Shinjuku Boys
A film about love and gender.
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.
- Year: 1995
- Country: Japan, United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: 20th Century Vixen, Vixen Films
- Keyword: japan, lgbt, woman director, trans man
- Director: Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams
- Cast: Gaish, Tatsu, Kazuki, Abe, Kumi