Shinjuku Boys

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Shinjuku Boys
By Susan G. Cole

http://www.nowtoronto.com/movies/story.cfm?content=174681

I can see documentary filmmakers lining up outside the New Marilyn Club for a chance to get into this subculture. It's the place where women, not necessarily lesbians, come to party with women dressed as men.

Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams succeed because they focus on three very different "hostesses."

Trans man Tatsu is on male hormones. Kazuki, who binds her breasts, has a transsexual female partner, and Gaish, a little bit stone butch, seems to dress like a man because it gives her licence to be cruel to women.