Film
Shinjuku Boys
United Kingdom- Director
- Kim Longinotto
- Year
- 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.
Top cast
Directed by
Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams
Produced by
Kim Longinotto
