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Shinjuku Boys

Shinjuku Boys

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 1, 1995

Runtime

0h 53m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

68%

Original Title

Shinjuku Boys

Production Companies

20th Century Vixen, Vixen Films

Director

Kim Longinotto

Description

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.