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Shinjuku boys / Women Make Movies ; Twentieth Century Vixen for the BBC ; a film by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Cross-dressers--Japan--Tokyo.
- Cross-dressers.
- Lesbians--Japan--Identity.
- Lesbians.
- Lesbians--Sexual behavior--Japan.
- Male impersonators--Japan--Tokyo.
- Male impersonators.
- Nightclubs--Japan--Tokyo.
- Nightclubs.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (53 min.)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Women Make Movies, [1995]
- Language Note:
- In Japanese with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: An Internet browser with HTML5 support.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- Summary:
- From the makers of DREAM GIRLS, 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.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Shuko Noguchi.
- Credits:
- Camera, Kim Longinotto ; editing, John Mister.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 22, 2022).
- OCLC:
- 1129020189
- Publisher Number:
- wm-shinju Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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