Blue Boy Trial

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.

Cast

Miyu Nakagawa Sachi

Kou Maehara Atsuhiko Ataru Nakamura Mei

Izumi Sexy Āchi

Reo Sanada Betty Hirofumi Mutsukawa Yuki

Taihei Tsukasa

Kiyohiko Shibukawa Takayuki Okabe Takashi Yamanaka Dr. Akagi Jumpei Yasui Tokita Ryo Nishikido Kano Miyatani

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