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.
Kashou Iizuka
Director
Miyu Nakagawa
Sachi
Kou Maehara
Atsuhiko
Ataru Nakamura
Mei
Izumi Sexy
Āchi
Reo Sanada
Betty
Hirofumi Mutsukawa
Yuki
Taihei
Tsukasa
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Takayuki Okabe
Takashi Yamanaka
Dr. Akagi
Normal66%
Philadelphia77%
What Maisie Knew71%
Just Mercy78%
Port Authority60%
Boy Erased69%
The Rainmaker70%
Killer's Kiss63%
Colette69%
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film70%
Skin63%
Starving in Suburbia65%
Roman J. Israel, Esq.63%
国宝78%
Knock on Any Door62%
North Country72%
The Pelican Brief65%
TalhotBlond63%
PiCNiC68%
Out of My Mind77%
