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跨性導演攜手跨性演員，共同還原上世紀日本人權史上著名審判

1960年代，日本經濟快速起飛，政府為了即將到來的東京奧運，更決心大刀闊斧整頓社會風氣，訂立了一條反賣淫法，加強掃黃，嚴格取締街頭性工作者。然而，這條法律只針對女性，讓跨性別工作者有漏洞可鑽，他們被稱之為「藍色男孩」。警察礙於法律無法對付這些「藍色男孩」，轉而向為他們進行變性手術的赤城醫生（山中崇 飾）開刀，將其依「違反優生保護法」的罪名逮捕。為了替赤城醫生辯護，律師狩野（錦戶亮 飾）四處奔走，拜託曾接受赤城醫生手術的「藍色男孩」出庭作證。她們有些人仍在風塵中打滾，有些人卻早已過上平凡踏實的新生活。在法庭上三名證人在一問一答攻防間，從「手術是否合法？」「真正的幸福是什麼？」到「我究竟是誰？」，堅定的身影為全日本帶來一場震撼教育。

This is a story inspired by true events. In the 1960s, as Japan flourished amid rapid economic growth and the excitement of the Tokyo Olympics, a controversy broke out. While a wave of internationalization swept over the nation's urban areas, the government put measures in place to purge lax public morals. An anti-prostitution law went into effect, and sex workers on the streets faced increasingly harsh crackdowns. However, as the law only applied to female prostitutes, it created a loophole for legally male prostitutes, referred to at the time as "blue boys." Frustrated by this situation, police instead arrested the doctor responsible for carrying out sex changes for blue boys. In a time when even the concept of LGBT was yet to exist, the appearance of three transgender women in the doctor's trial as witnesses drew sensational attention. What's more, this trial contesting whether gender reassignment surgery was proper medical practice gradually transformed into an extensive debate over the true meaning of happiness. Ultimately, the surgery was deemed to be legal, but the so-called "Blue Boy Trial" conversely caused such operations to be viewed as taboo. For 29 years after the verdict was issued, no sex changes were carried out in Japan. Half a century has passed since the Blue Boy Trial, which continues to influence the lives of sexual minorities in Japan to this day, yet remains little-known in the obscured margins of history.