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1960s Japan—economic boom, Olympic pride, and a crackdown on “public morals.” An anti-prostitution law targets women but spares male sex workers, the so-called “blue boys.” When police arrest the doctor performing their sex reassignment surgeries, the sensational “Blue Boy Trial” begins. Three transgender women take the stand, igniting a national debate on identity, medicine, and happiness—long before the language of LGBT existed. Though the court ruled surgery legal, the verdict cast a shadow: no such operations would occur in Japan for 29 years. Half a century later, this buried history still reverberates in the lives of sexual minorities.Read moreLess
1960s Japan—economic boom, Olympic pride, and a crackdown on “public morals.” An anti-prostitution law targets women but spares male sex workers, the so-called “blue boys.” When police arrest the doctor performing their sex reassignment surgeries, the sensational “Blue Boy Trial” begins. Three transgender women take the stand, igniting a national debate on identity, medicine, and happiness—long before the language of LGBT existed. Though the court ruled surgery legal, the verdict cast a shadow: no such operations would occur in Japan for 29 years. Half a century later, this buried history still reverberates in the lives of sexual minorities.
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1960s Japan—economic boom, Olympic pride, and a crackdown on “public morals.” An anti-prostitution law targets women but spares male sex workers, the so-called “blue boys.” When police arrest the doctor performing their sex reassignment surgeries, the sensational “Blue Boy Trial” begins. Three transgender women take the stand, igniting a national debate on identity, medicine, and happiness—long before the language of LGBT existed. Though the court ruled surgery legal, the verdict cast a shadow: no such operations would occur in Japan for 29 years. Half a century later, this buried history still reverberates in the lives of sexual minorities.
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Kou MaeharaAtsuhiko
Ataru Nakamura
Hirofumi Rokugawa
Kiyohiko ShibukawaTakayuki Okabe
Takashi YamanakaDr. Akagi
Ryo NishikidoKano
MiyataniCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Kashou Iizuka
- Producer
- Kenichi Yoshida
- Producer
- Hitoshi Endo
- Producer
- San KIM
- Producer
- Arai Mariko
- Producer
- Kosuke Oshida
- Editor
- Shinichi Fushima
- Original Music Composer
- Shoji Ikenaga
- Screenplay
- Yuiko Kato
- Screenplay
- Kashou Iizuka
- Screenplay
- Tsuneo Miura