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Blue Boy Trial

Drama
7.0·2025·1h 46m

1960s Japan—economic boom, Olympic pride, and a crackdown on “public morals.” An anti-prostitution law targets women but spares male sex workers, the ...

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Miyu Nakagawa

Sachi

Kou Maehara

Kou Maehara

Atsuhiko

Ataru Nakamura

Ataru Nakamura

Mei

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Izumi Sexy

Āchi

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Reo Sanada

Betty

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Hirofumi Mutsukawa

Yuki

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Taihei

Tsukasa

Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Takayuki Okabe

DIRECTOR

Kashou Iizuka

OVERVIEW

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.