Shinjuku Boys
MovieTitle | Shinjuku Boys |
User score | 6.8 |
Release date | Jul 1, 1995 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Kim Longinotto , Jano Williams |
Production country | Japan, United Kingdom |
Production companies | 20th Century Vixen, Vixen Films |
Run time | 53 min. |
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.