Gaea Girls / Shinjuku Boys

Gaea Girls / Shinjuku Boys (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
152 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1995 - 2000 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Kim Longinotto
Jano Williams

Written By:
Kim Longinotto
Jano Williams

Actors:
Chigusa Nagayo ..... Herself
Meiko Satomura ..... Herself
Yuka Sugiyama ..... Herself
Saika Takeuchi ..... Herself
Gaish ..... Herself
Tatsu ..... Herself
Kazuki ..... Herself
Abe ..... Herself
Kumi ..... Herself

Synopsis:

Gaea Girls (2000)
A documentary look at women's wrestling in Japan, Gaea Girls is largely set in the training camp of the eponymous Gaea club, where aspiring wrestlers are supervised by the coolly sophisticated club president Yuka Sugiyama and whipped into shape by the pro wrestler Chigusa Nagayo. The film focuses much of its attention on Saika Takeuchi, a whiny trainee who struggles to pass her final tests. Directed by renowned documentarians Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, Gaea Girls was screened at the 2000 Edinburgh Film Festival.

Shinjuku Boys (1995)
A film about love and gender. This documentary is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo, Japan - where the hosts are women who have chosen to live as men. They can only make their living as hosts in a nightclub with other 'wannabes' like them. The young women who come there often have relationships with them but the underlying fear is whether such a relationship can withstand the pressures on a girl to get married and have children. All three boys deal with this in different ways. These three hosts, the Shinjuku Boys, take us into their lives.

Gaea Girls (2000)
Observational documentary featuring a school outside Tokyo that trains young Japanese women to wrestle but not in the Sumo style. Follows their physically and mentally gruelling regime, focusing in particular on one trainee, Takeuchi, who is trying to prove herself.

Shinjuku Boys (1995)
The title boys are actually cross-dressing Japanese girls who frequent the New Marilyn club. There straights, lesbians, and those who simply desire to live and be treated as men gather for evenings of dancing and fun. This British documentary offers fascinating and surprising glimpses into some of the patron's lives.

Two documentaries from Kim Longinotto - exploring perceptions of female sexulaity in Japan. Shinjuku Boys reveals the Japanese 'onnabes' - women who live as men. The flm introduces three onnabes who work as hosts at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo. Gaea Girls follows a group of Japanese women wrestlers.

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