Thai and Chinese MTF body swap movies

If you hurry, you might catch two recent body swap movies from Asia over at YouTube.

The two are If I Were You (Biàn shēn nánnǚ), a decent romantic comedy from China and Love Arumirai, a slapstick comedy from Thailand.

Turn on English subtitles using the Youtube settings. The Chinese movie has a few audio drop-outs.

I have written more about them over at Crossdream Life.

J.J. Abrams is planning a live-action version of the Japanese body-swap anime Your Name

Your Name must be the best body-swap movies ever made.  It is a beautiful love story, and the kind of high quality anime we have normally seen from Studio Ghibli.

The two main characters switch bodies, but in a fashion that is much more complex that we see in most movies using this plot device.

The 2016 movie was made by  Noritaka Kawaguchi and Genki Kawamura, and was a huge hit world wide. If you haven't seen it, do so now.

Deadline reports that J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: Episode IX) and Lindsey Weber will produce for Bad Robot, along with Genki Kawamura.

American adaptations of films from other countries are problematic. This applies to anime, as well.  Ghost in the Shell was a fiasco. Still, I am looking forward to this one.



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Inside You, A Feminist Body-Swap Movie

The body-swap theme seems to be popular among some directors these days.

Inside You is a brand new one, directed by a woman, Heather Fink, and is playing in some US theaters right now.

I haven't seen the movie yet. It is marketed as a romantic comedy, and the write-up goes like this:

Stephanie and Ryan have been dating for 5 years but their views on marriage couldn't be more different. After a botched marriage proposal and an encounter with a magical object, Stephanie and Ryan switch bodies. They navigate the wonders and challenges of the opposite sex while making unexpected discoveries about each other.

Heather Fink plays the role of the main female character herself. This is her first feature film.

To SplitSider she says:

It was important to me that the female character was not a stereotype of a woman and the male character was not a stereotype of a man. I think in real women, there are several contradictions when it comes to what being a woman is all about. So what is it really then when we switch bodies?   

Cleo/Leo, bigoted business man becomes sexy woman in this 1980s movie

It is amazing to see how many male to female transformation movies follow the exact same plot:

1. Callous and sexist boss is transformed into a sexy woman
2. Sexy woman learns how it is to be a woman facing all this crap
3. And most often: Boss learns to live as a woman

This applies to Sam, The Sex Trip, Goodbye Charlie, and Switch.

Leo/Cleo is another one, from 1989, made by porn film director Chuck Vincent and with porn actress Veronica Heart in the leading role. In spite of some nudity, this is not a porn movie, however.

You could better categorise it as some kind of romantic action comedy.  It is not good, but it is not bad either, and Veronica Heart actually knows how to act.

For readers of this blog, it is worth the time.

 

A Great TG Comic Creator: Kennal

One of my favorite TG comic makers is Kennal, who can be found over at TG Comics.

These are hand drawn comics, brightly colored, and with great story telling.

Anyway, she has a new chapter of her Raan series out now.

This is a crossdresser love story set in a cosplay culture.

She has also comics with magical body transformations.

Read Raan's Doll here!

Lost in Transgender - From the history of transgender movie making

World of TG is a site mainly devoted to the erotic side of TG dreams, including captions, stories and movies.  We use stories for entertainment and in order to understand what or who we are.

Movies has been used for this purpose for a long time, and Cheryl has done an excellent job covering older transgender oriented movies over at her site Lost in Transgender.

She writes about the backstory, the actors, the directors and the times the movies were made.

The movies can sometimes be hard to get hold of, but by doing some internet searches you will be able to find some of them.

She also uses the site to promote the Tranisa crossdressing and gender bender videos in between the historical articles.

Visit Lost in Transgender here!

Paradox Alice, a full feature male to female transformation movie

Feminized has given us a short write-up om Ms. Mako's feature length movie, Paradox Alice.

Paradox Alice is a science fiction movie about a all male crew stranded in space after the Earth blows up.

This extreme situation forces nature to take desperate measures (or, at least, that is one of the explanations given) and one of the men is brutally transformed into a woman.

It is definitely a feminization fantasy of sorts, containing many of the elements found in TG captions and fiction. However, they become part of a much larger story about life, love, morals and religion.

See: Paradox Alice -- gender bending science fiction (NSFW).

The whole movie has now been uploaded to Youtube and you can watch it all here:

The Assignment -- a forced feminization fantasy or pure entertainment?

From the comic book The Assigment.

This is not a film about a transgender woman! The makers of The Assignment insist. I would say they are right about that.

This is the story about a mad scientist (played by Sigourney Weaver) who kidnaps the notorious contract killer, Frank Kitchen, and uses hormones and surgery to turn him into a woman -- for revenge.

He suddenly wakes up one day, in a dirty hotel room, with breasts and a vagina.

But that does not make him a woman, mentally, and if Michelle Rodriguez does one thing right in this movie, it is that she presents the post-op Frank Kitchen as a guy, as the hit man he truly is.

You could say that there is one trans person in this movie. Sigourney Weaver plays the role of a transmasculine woman.

I think it works as a film noir B-movie. You caught up in the action and truly wonder how it all will end, and what kind of life Frank will have in his female body.

Whether it was also meant as a feminization fantasy, I do not know, but I know that many of the visitors to this site will watch it as such.



The movie is based on the comic book The Assigment.

You will find more info on the movie and discussions over at Crossdream Life, where you will also find an interview with Walter Hill, the director of the movie, from the comic book version of the story.

• New Film : Forced Sexchange Romp With Sigourney Weaver
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• Forced Sexchange Film 'The Assignment' Trailer Finally Released

Kämpfer - Japanese anime with a gender twist

Japanese culture may seem strict and uptight, and in many ways it is. Still, when it comes to entertainment they have a very relaxed attitude to gender bending. There is even a body swap porn genre.

In anime (Japanese style animated movies) quite a few plots are based on boy being changed into girl, and that applies also to non-erotic material. Well, maybe non-erotic is not exactly the word we are looking for. There are plenty of very curvy bodies in sexy school girl uniforms, even if there is no explicit sex.

Goodbye Charlie

Given last years gender bender movies (Sam and The Sex Trip) it may make sense to go back to one of the first ones: Goodbye Charlie.

Wikipedia has this to say about the movie:

Goodbye Charlie is a 1964 comedy film about a callous womanizer who gets his just reward. It was adapted from George Axelrod's play Goodbye, Charlie and starred Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis. The play also provided the basis for Switch, with Ellen Barkin and Jimmy Smits.

I would say that it is better than all the other movies mentioned above. I like the script and I like the comedy.

Needless to say, Charlie comes back as a woman after being murdered. A sexy vamp of a woman. And although Charlie takes to his new life a bit too quickly in my opinion, the drama that unfolds is worth watching.

Not that everyone agrees with me. In 1964 the New York Times wrote the following:

GEORGE AXELROD'S play, "Goodbye, Charlie," was bad enough on the stage. On the screen, it is a bleak conglomeration of outrageous whimsies and stupidities. And it has Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis so sadly cast in distasteful roles that it causes even a hardened moviegoer to turn away from it in pain and shame.

Ouch!

You can watch it now, if you like, as the whole movie is available on YouTube.

Buy yourself a TG comic for the holiday season! The Harper Kelly Story

I like TG Comics. It has become the important gateway into transgender comics, erotic or otherwise. Quite a few of them are even free.

Today, however, I would like to draw your attention to one of their Premium comics, the Ballad of Harper Kelly. It is made by one of my favorite TG artists, Sturkwurk, together with Renee Roselli.

Sturkwurk is making 3D computergenerated graphics (using Poser, I believe), and as many of you will know, that is not without its risks. You easily end up in the socalled "Uncanny Valley", where people look nearly real, but not real enough. Hence the "uncanny".

Sturkwurk knows how to make use of genuine facial expressions and more to make the images look natural, however. This works. And Renee's story is fun and engaging.

Harper Lee works at a nanotech company that is not amused by his attempts at bringing ethics into the business model. They have the most interesting ways of making him and his police girl friend shut up.

The comic has some sexually explicit sections, but I guess the readers of this blog won't mind.

The Ballad of Harper Kelly. There are (so far) two parts, each priced at US$ 7.95.

New upcoming male to female gender transformation comedy

Amazon is to present a new movie about a sexist man being taught a lesson by witch by being transformed into a sexy woman.

This sounds like Sam all over again, the classical TG fiction theme now used in a romantic comedy.

I have written more about the movie over at Crossdream Life, where you will also find the trailer.

Italian GrindhouseTrans Movie from 1980

Lost in Transgender has covered quite a few vintage movies with transgender themes.

In a new post Cheryl discusses a forgotten Italian soft porn movie from 1980 called Eva Man (Due sessi in uno) starring two transsexual starlets, Eva Robins and Ajita Wilson.

As Cheryl points out, to the extent American movies portrayed trans people at the time, they were most likely criminals or crazy. The Italians, however, might present trans women as sexy heroes.

By the way: That is one amazing poster!

Read Cheryl's blog post abotu Eva Man here!

Complete movie embedded below.

Candy Darling, the transgender superstar of the early seventies

Cheryl has written a great piece on Candy Darling,  the transgender superstar that influenced the alternative scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s. She was a friend of people like Andy Warhol and Lou Reed.

Cheryl writes:

Andy cast her in 'Flesh' (1968) and 'Women in Revolt' (1971). Candy also had some cameo appearances in 'Klute' with Jane Fonda and 'Lady Liberty' with Sophia Loren. Candy tried hard to obtain the lead role in 'Myra Breckinridge' (1970) but lost out to Raquel Welch. She also obtained parts in some independent films such as, 'Silent Night, Bloody Night', 'Some of My Best Friends Are...' and 'Brand X'.

Read the blog post here: Transsexual Superstar Candy Darling

Sex Change in RPGs

Rani Baker has written an interesting article on gender bending in tabletop role playing games throughout the ages: “Is Every Woman Here A Sex Change?” — Trans In Cyberpunk RPG

Here is a relevant quote:

But in the 90s, the cyberpunk genre emerged to dust off these Atomic Age artefacts and carefully lay a patina of grunge over them, showcasing them between images of shock value fetish and surprisingly accurate speculation on an internet culture that was barely beginning to exist. Atomic Age fascination with transsexuals as a form of body augmentation fared no differently. The genre, with it’s focus on self-identity, chaos and tech, seemed to go hand in hand with tabletop and computer role-playing, and many series developed congruently with their spin-off RPGs. Hell, even Infocom, the makers of Zork, released a computer game where you could do drugs and hook up with transsexual strippers.

More here!

Sally Bend, Author and Reviewer of TG erotica

Kella Z. Driel has interviewed Sally Bend, author and reviewer of transgender erotica.

Bend writes in Frock, a magazine for
crossdressers, drag queens and trans women.

She’s the assistant editor of Frock Magazine, a crossgender lifestyle magazine where she reviews transgender literature. Her reviews of erotica can also be found in Transformation magazine. 

You can read the whole interview over at Driel's blog.

Here is a short extract:

Kella asks: "Within the transgender genre, there are many niches, ranging from the realistic to the fantastic, with for example magical genderswap stories being one extreme. Which niches do you prefer? Are there any you avoid? Are there some you wish got more attention and others less?"

Sally answers: "In all honesty, it depends on my mood. Sometimes I want the magic of an instantaneous, effortless, perfect transformation. I want that dream of just waking up a woman, with no effort or struggle involved. Then again, sometimes I want a realistic story that pays close attention to the details of dressing, doing makeup, and learning to walk in heels.  There are days where the destination is all that matters, and days where I want to enjoy the journey.

I love that futa stories seem to be getting more attention, although it really annoys me when authors jump on the bandwagon and mislabel their characters. I’ve had to call it out in a few reviews – if she doesn’t have a hole AND a pole, then she’s not futa!

The one niche I tend to avoid is sadomasochist erotica, where the forced feminization is solely for the sake of cruelty and humiliation. A little reluctance and coercion can be erotic, so long as the sissy or cuckold learns to enjoy it, but I simply can’t relate to a character that is made to suffer through something that should be so pleasurable."

Sally Bend's facebook page.

On how to keep your real identity secret when browsing the web

On how to establish a second
identity online and keeping it private.
Photo: Altrendo

On how to keep your online activities private from friends, family and colleagues.

People who visit TG sites and take part in forums where one discuss gender transformation and crossdressing may -- for obvious reasons -- feel the need to protect their real identity.

If you need to keep your other side a secret from family, friends, colleagues and other people, it is important to establish a good routine for reading and posting online.

Online life is becoming increasingly complicated. We often use several computers, smart phones and tablets at the same time, and the chances of someone finding out what you have been up to are increasing.

Outed by accident

I know of quite a few TG fiction fans who have had their secret "hobby" exposed to family and friends due to some accident:

1. They have been disturbed while reading and writing and left a Fictionmania story open in a tab.
2. There has been a computer crash and the PC has reopened the tabs from the previous session.
3. They have used their regular email instead of their dedicated TG email by mistake.
4. They have used their regular social media account instead of their dedicated TG one by mistake.
5. They have saved captions and stories in one of their regular document folders.
6. Family members have search the browser history in order to retrace a site and found World of TG in the list.

Compartmentalize!

Sam becomes Sam in this MTF transformation movie

Nicholas Brooks has made a comedy about Sam, a misgynistic a**hole, who is transformed into a Sam, a petite brunette of great beauty.

It looks very much like a crossdreamer fantasy to me. There is even the much used TG fiction motive: The old man in the "curiosity" shop bringing on all the magic.

Brooks is the son of Mel Brooks, who is also listed as executive producer of Sam.

Sam is starring Natalie Knepp, Sean Kleier, Stacy Keach, Morgan Fairchild, Bryan Batt, James McCaffrey and Tom Pelphrey.

Det movie is apparently to be made available on DVD and via streaming services in October this year.

What if you were trapped in your favorite video game, as a girl?

What if you were trapped in your favorite video game, as a girl?

That is what happens to one of the main characters in the Web TV series AFK, Steven, a 28 year old male "noob", who has to play the role of a female warrior.

JJ Fong AKA Steven

Yahoo! New Zealand puts it this way in an interview with the actor playing Steven: JJ Fong:

"Steven has adopted a scantily clad female warrior as his character, primarily for the purpose of ogling her while playing. It’s a decision that backfires when he wakes up dressed in a tiny costume that sees him attract a lot of unwanted attention from his fellow transplanted gamers."

You can watch the series here!

Transgender Movie - Eva Robins in 'Mascara' (1987)

Lost in Transgender tells the story og the 19080s movie Mascara, where trans actress Eva Robins plays the role of a trans woman performs in a secret sex club.

Eva Robins was born male in 1958, but developed naturally feminine features and breasts during puberty, despite being a normal boy growing up, her body failed to masculine like the other boys of her age.

From the age of about thirteen she says she felt she wanted to be a female. When she was sixteen, she started oestrogen treatments. By the age of twenty-one she was living completely as a woman.

Read all about it over at Lost in Transgender.