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.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1995-12-07
  • Runtime: 53 min
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English, Japanese
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 6.8
Shinjuku Boys poster