Shinjuku Boys (1995)

overview : 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.

Release Date : Jul 01, 1995

Runtime : 53m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : 20th Century Vixen, Vixen Films

Countries : Japan, United Kingdom

Keywords : japan, lgbt, woman director, trans man