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Shinjuku Boys (1995) | Slate

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Rated 6.9 on TMDB

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.

Released: 1995
Runtime: 53m
Genres: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

Direction and writing

Jano WilliamsDirector

Kim LonginottoDirector

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GaishSelf
TatsuSelf
KazukiSelf

AbeSelf
KumiSelf

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