''Shinjuku Boys'' is a 1995 film by

Kim Longinotto Kim Longinotto ( Sally Anne Longinotto-Landseer; born 8 February 1948, London) is a British documentary film maker, well-known for making films that highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination. Longinotto has made mo ...

and

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. It explores the lives of three

transgender men A trans man is a man who was assigned female at birth. The label of transgender man is not always interchangeable with that of transsexual man, although the two labels are often used in this way. ''Transgender'' is an umbrella term that inclu ...

who work at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo, Japan.

Reception

In 1995, ''Shinjuku Boys'' won Outstanding Documentary at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, a Silver Hugo Prize at the

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and Gold Prize at Houston Film Festival. The film received positive reviews following its 2010 release by Second Run DVD. In a review at ''DVDTalk'', Chris Neilson praised the films directors, commenting that "Through low-key cinéma vérité filmmaking, Longinotto and Williams provide insight into the professional and personal lives of the trio of onnabe ic. Sarah Cronin of ''Electric Sheep Magazine'' also notes that "Despite the fact that it's a cruder, more dated film, it's the strength of the interviews in ''Shinjuku Boys'' that makes it an even more arresting documentary."

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