Shinjuku Boys

Shinjuku Boys 1995 Directed by Kim Longinotto , Jano Williams

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.

Country United Kingdom

Production Country United Kingdom

Language English

Spoken Languages English , Japanese

Gnere Documentary

Production Company Vixen Films

Release Date 7 December 1995

53 mins