Shinjuku Boys

Shinjuku Boys

53 mins | Documentary | July 1, 1995

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.

Shinjuku Boys

53 mins | Documentary | July 1, 1995

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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Vixen Films, 20th Century Vixen
Original title Shinjuku Boys
Directors Jano Williams, Kim Longinotto
Writers

Cast

Gaish

as Self

Tatsu

as Self

Kazuki

as Self

Abe

as Self

Kumi

as Self