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Blue Boy Trial (2025)
Directed by Kashou Iizuka
Drama · 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 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
Kou Maehara
Ataru Nakamura
Hirofumi Rokugawa
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Takashi Yamanaka
Ryo Nishikido
Miyatani
Crew
- Director
- Kashou Iizuka
- Screenplay
- Yuiko Kato, Kashou Iizuka, Tsuneo Miura
- Original Music Composer
- Shoji Ikenaga
- Editor
- Shinichi Fushima
- Producer
- Kenichi Yoshida, Hitoshi Endo, San KIM, Arai Mariko, Kosuke Oshida
Details
- Original title
- ブルーボーイ事件
- Release date
- 2025-11-14
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- KDDI, Office Shirous, Nikkatsu Corporation, Amuse Creative Studio