Shinjuku Boys (1995)

• 71%
• 1995
• Documentary
• Kim Longinotto
• Jano Williams
• Gaish
• Kazuki
• Abe

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.