Blue Boy Trial (2025)
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14 Nov 2025
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Drama
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.
Featured Crew
| Kashou Iizuka | Director |
| Kenichi Yoshida | Producer |
| Hitoshi Endo | Producer |
| San KIM | Producer |
| Arai Mariko | Producer |
| Kosuke Oshida | Producer |
| Takehiko Watanabe | Sound Recordist |
| Kentaro Kosaka | Production Design |
| Ayumi Tanaka | Costume Design |
| Shinichi Fushima | Editor |
