Director Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams
Country/Production UK
Release 1997
Length 54 mins
Format Colour / DVD / PAL / All region
Location Japan, Tokyo / Asia
Ethnic Group Japanese
Collection Kim Longinotto
Order No RAI-200.xx
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A film about love and gender. This film is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo where all the hosts are women who have decided to live as men. They make their living by working in a club with other ‘onnabe’ like them. The young women who come there often have relationships with them but the underlying fear is whether such a relationship can withstand the pressures on a girl to get married and have children.
