Backdrop for Shinjuku Boys
Poster for Shinjuku Boys

Shinjuku Boys

(1995)

December 7, 1995 0h 53m
69%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Kim Longinotto

Director