Shinjuku Boys

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.

• Release date
• December 7, 1995
• Runtime
• 53 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Kim Longinotto

Cast

G

Gaish Self Tatsu Self

K

Kazuki Self

A

Abe Self

K

Kumi Self