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Boys for Sale

Boys for Sale

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Boys for Sale

"Boys are selling sex in Japan. Who is buying?"

2017

1h 16m

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Through animation and a series of interviews with nine young men in Tokyo's gay district, this documentary exposes and humanizes the rarely seen world of gay sex work in Japan.

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Directed by: Itako
Produced by: Ian Thomas Ash
Adrian Storey

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