Toshio Matsumoto directs Peter, Osamu Ogasawara and Yoshio Tsuchiyain in this Japanese art film following trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.

Experimental, meta and flip. Made for the exploitation market but way too candid, compassionate and playful to really satisfy the gore and nudity crowd. Startlingly ahead of its time in terms of representation but also very of its time in terms of form.

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Perfect Double Bill: Street Of Shame (1956)

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