(ブルーボーイ事件)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Japan

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Runtime:

106 minutes

Year:

2025

Directors:

Kashou Iizuka

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Production companies:

KDDI,

Office Shirous,

Nikkatsu Corporation,

Amuse Creative Studio

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