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From the makers of Dream Girls, Shinjuku Boys introduces
three annabes who work as hosts at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo. Annabes 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.
A Women Make Movies film. 53 minutes.
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