Movie¡2025¡1h 46m
Blue Boy Trial
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7.0Drama
Synopsis
1960s Japanâeconomic boom, Olympic pride, and a crackdown on âpublic morals.â An anti-prostitution law targets women but spares male sex workers, the so-called âblue boys.â When police arrest the doctor performing their sex reassignment surgeries, the sensational âBlue Boy Trialâ begins. Three transgender women take the stand, igniting a national debate on identity, medicine, and happinessâlong 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.
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