Williamsburg Regional Library

Shinjuku Boys

Label
Shinjuku Boys
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Shinjuku Boys
Medium
electronic resource
Oclc number
1035153393
resource.otherEventInformation
Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 1995
Runtime
53
Summary
SHINJUKU BOYS introduces three onnabes who work as hosts at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo. Onnabes 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 in Japan today
Technique
live action
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