Close Your Eyes and Hold Me

A genuine oddity - this Japanese erotic film defies classification and resists all labels you might want to throw at it. Close Your Eyes and Hold Me is a love story like we've never seen before - between a transsexual or surgically created hermaphrodite (played by a woman) and a previously "straight" man.

Amane is a young, very cute executive with a pretty fiance, Juri. When Amane hits a woman, Hanabusa, with his car, he falls in love with her as she recovers in the hospital. After her release, Amane is shocked to learn that Hanabusa is not a she, but a guy with breasts. Their affair becomes passionate in spite of, or because of this. When Amane breaks up with Juri she yearns to find out more about this woman she was dumped for. When Juri meets Hanabusa, they too begin a passionate affair - which then spreads to a threesome with another man.

While the film is not really a developed film along Western standards, and the porn is soft-core, there is something quite compelling about this unique film. There is no genital sex or contact depicted, but there is under the sheet sex in nearly every scene. And this sex is certainly not limited to any specific sort of sex, certainly a title for the "trysexuals" (people who will try anything). (Japanese with English subtitles)

Scott Cranin