Shinjuku Boys

Duration: 00:55:00 The boys in the title are actually onnabes, or cross-dressing Japanese girls, who work as hosts at the New Marilyn club in Tokyo. They are women who live as men and have girlfriends, although they don't usually identify as lesbians. As the film follows them at home and on the...

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Other Authors: Longinotto, Kim, Williams, Jano
Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:Japanese
Published: Bookbinder, Alan 1995
United Kingdom
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:ffedbed6-38f5-4871-abb7-528ea6096aa5
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author2 Longinotto, Kim
Williams, Jano
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Williams, Jano
collection OSA Film Library
dateSpan 1995
description Duration: 00:55:00 The boys in the title are actually onnabes, or cross-dressing Japanese girls, who work as hosts at the New Marilyn club in Tokyo. They are women who live as men and have girlfriends, although they don't usually identify as lesbians. As the film follows them at home and on the job, all three talk frankly to the camera about their gender-bending lives, revealing their views about women, sex, transvestitism and lesbianism. Alternating with these illuminating interviews are fabulous sequences shot inside the club, patronized almost exclusively by heterosexual women who have become disappointed with real men. This is a remarkable documentary about the complexity of female sexuality.
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institution Open Society Archives at Central European University
language Japanese
publishDate 1995
publisher Bookbinder, Alan
United Kingdom
spellingShingle Shinjuku Boys
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title Shinjuku Boys
topic [Documentary film]
url http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:ffedbed6-38f5-4871-abb7-528ea6096aa5