Multi-award winning BBC documentary about the 'onnabe', women who decide to live as
men. Hosts at the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo where the onnabe cater for heterosexual
women, the Shinjuku boys negotiate in different ways relationships with their clients
who usually leave them for marriage and to have children. Gaish is an elegant playboy
with lots of girlfriends but a constant fear of loneliness. Tatsu who has felt a boy
since early childhood, is on male hormones he gets on the black market and lives with
his girlfriend Tomoe. Kazuki intends to marry Kumi who started life as a man and now
works at the Pink Soda Cabaret Club as a dancer.
“Vancouver’s 8th Queer Film & Video Festival.” Out on Screen, 1996.