Shinjuku Boys (1995)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 53M
Director : Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams
Sinopse
A film about love and gender. This documentary is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo, Japan - where the hosts are transgender 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.
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James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling Americans, black and white, to confront their shared racial tragedy.
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Há muito tempo, a Terra era dominada pelos dinossauros e ninguém os incomodava. A vida era boa em um lugar que, após 65 milhões de anos, passou a se chamar Brooklyn. Então algo inesperado aconteceu: Um meteoro gigante atingiu a Terra e os dinossauros foram exterminados. Entretanto, o impacto criou uma dimensão paralela, onde alguns dinossauros sobreviveram e se tornaram uma espécie inteligente e agressiva. Brooklyn, 20 anos atrás. Na porta de um convento é deixado um ovo, que é recolhido pelas freiras e dele nasce uma criança. Brooklyn, dias atuais. Os encanadores Mario Mario (Bob Hoskins) e Luigi Mario (John Leguizamo) se vêem em uma aventura fantástica para salvar a Princesa Daisy (Samantha Mathis) em um escondido mundo, Dinohattan, onde os habitantes evoluíram dos dinossauros. A dupla enfrenta desafios mortais do Rei Koopa (Dennis Hopper) e batalham contra répteis enormes para impedir um terrível plano, que busca invadir nosso mundo.
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