Shinjuku Boys

Tales of Transgender Men in Japan

This film 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.

Winner of the Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago Film Festival. Winner of the Gold Prize at the Houston FIlm Festival.