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Shinjuku Boys
1995, 53 minutes

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Media type
Country of origin

Canada

England

Production company

20th Century Vixen

Vixen Films

Technical specs

Colour

16mm

Languages

English/English

Content Warnings
Unreviewed
Description

Multi-award winning BBC documentary about the 'onnabe', women who decide to live as men. Hosts at the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo where the onnabe cater for heterosexual women, the Shinjuku boys negotiate in different ways relationships with their clients who usually leave them for marriage and to have children. Gaish is an elegant playboy with lots of girlfriends but a constant fear of loneliness. Tatsu who has felt a boy since early childhood, is on male hormones he gets on the black market and lives with his girlfriend Tomoe. Kazuki intends to marry Kumi who started life as a man and now works at the Pink Soda Cabaret Club as a dancer.

“Vancouver’s 8th Queer Film & Video Festival.” Out on Screen, 1996.

Cast & Crew
Distribution
Screenings

1997-10-31 4:00 PM

London International Transgender Film and Video Festival