Blue Boy Trial (12) ブルーボーイ事件 (Blue Boy Jiken)
Sun 08 Mar
|Exeter Phoenix - Studio 74
A forgotten trial in 1960s Tokyo challenges the law, society, and the very right to live as oneself.
Time & Location
08 Mar 2026, 16:00 – 17:50
Exeter Phoenix - Studio 74, Gandy St, Bradninch, Place, Exeter EX4 3LS, UK
About The Event
Dir. IIZUKA Kasho
2025 | 106 mins | Japan | Japanese with English Subtitles
YAMANAKA Takashi, NAKAGAWA Miyu, NISHIKIDO Ryo, MAEHARA Ko
A forgotten trial in 1960s Tokyo challenges the law, society, and the very right to live as oneself.
Tokyo, 1965. The city is booming from the Olympic-driven economic surge. Amid growing internationalisation, the government introduces new measures to reinforce public morals — particularly public prostitution by women. As police intensify their crackdown, they are confounded by the presence of so-called “Blue Boys” : transgender women who, though still legally registered as male, live and work as women. Unable to charge them under the current Anti-Prostitution Law, which only applies to “female” prostitutes, authorities instead arrest Dr. AKAGI Masao (YAMANAKA Takashi), the surgeon who performed their gender-affirming operations, accusing him of violating the Eugenic Protection Law for rendering his patients infertile.
Meanwhile, Sachi (NAKAGAWA Miyu), a café waitress quietly…