Shinjuku Boys
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Kimona Longinotto
Shuko Noguchi
Alan Bookbinder
Nigel Hawkes
Kimona Longinotto
Kimona Longinotto
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As told through frank and unself-conscious testimonies from its main subject, a documentary which takes a look at three transvestite employees of the New Marilyn club in Tokyo: Tatsu, Gaish and Kazuki who coin themselves as "annabe"--women who live as men and have girlfriends, although they usually don't identify as lesbians. Tatsu lives with his girlfriend, Tomoe. Gaish is the tough-talking heartbreaker who has a string of girlfriends. And Kazuki lives with Kumii a male transexual and semi-famous nightclub dancer in Tokyo. Alternating interviews with these three main players and their partners, along with sequences shot in the ritzy club, this documentary shows a spectrum of a genuinely alternative sex--women who dress, live and want to be accepted as men and on whom the simple label of "lesbian" doesn't fit comfortably.
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Released in United States 1995
Released in United States July 1996
Released in United States June 1996
Released in United States November 1995
Released in United States November 1996
Shown at London Film Festival November 2-19, 1995.
Shown at Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival in New York City November 8-14, 1996.
Shown at New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival June 6-16, 1996.
Shown at Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival July 11-21, 1996.
Shown at San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival June 21-30, 1996.
Released in United States 1995
Released in United States June 1996 (Shown at New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival June 6-16, 1996.)
Released in United States June 1996 (Shown at San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival June 21-30, 1996.)
Released in United States July 1996 (Shown at Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival July 11-21, 1996.)
Released in United States November 1995 (Shown at London Film Festival November 2-19, 1995.)
Released in United States November 1996 (Shown at Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival in New York City November 8-14, 1996.)
