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.
Miyu Nakagawa
Kou Maehara
Ataru Nakamura
Izumi Sexy
Reo Sanada
Hirofumi Mutsukawa
Taihei
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Takashi Yamanaka
Jumpei Yasui
Ryo Nishikido
Miyatani
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