Blue Boy Trial (2025)
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.
Director:
Kashou Iizuka
Writers:
Yuiko Kato, Kashou Iizuka, 三浦毎生.
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Miyu Nakagawa as Sachi |
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Kou Maehara as Atsuhiko |
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Ataru Nakamura as Mei |
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Izumi Sexy as Āchi |
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Reo Sanada as Betty |
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Hirofumi Mutsukawa as Yuki |
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Taihei as Tsukasa |
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Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Takayuki Okabe |
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Takashi Yamanaka as Dr. Akagi |
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Jumpei Yasui as Tokita |
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Ryo Nishikido as Kano |
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Miyatani as |
| Directing | Kashou Iizuka | Director |
| Production | Kenichi Yoshida | Producer |
| Production | Hitoshi Endo | Producer |
| Production | San KIM | Producer |
| Production | Arai Mariko | Producer |
| Production | Kosuke Oshida | Producer |
| Sound | Takehiko Watanabe | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Kentaro Kosaka | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ayumi Tanaka | Costume Design |
| Editing | Shinichi Fushima | Editor |
| Sound | Shoji Ikenaga | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Yoko Yamashita | Casting Director |
| Writing | Yuiko Kato | Screenplay |
| Writing | Kashou Iizuka | Screenplay |
| Crew | Miyatani | Legal Services |
| Directing | Keiko Takano | Assistant Director |
| Writing | 三浦毎生 | Screenplay |
