In celebration of AANHPI Heritage Month, we proudly present 1995’s Shinjuku Boys. Shinjuku Boys explores the lives of three transmascs who work at the New Marilyn Club (a host club) in Tokyo. Follow these three onabe as they discuss romance, family life, concepts of gender + presentation, and their general outlooks on life. This sweet 53 minute doc will leave your heart full and begging for a Where Are They Now? sequel.
Preceding Shinjuku Boys will be a screening of the short film Dead Youth (1967). Using Mutsuo Takahashi’s poetry as a backdrop, diretor Donald Richie paints a portrait of queer men’s desire.
