[/floatl]Mainichi Wai Wai: She-male flicks peel off perverted packaging, provide professional polishOnce only the domain of those with peculiar proclivities, she-male flicks have hit Japan's mainstream, according to Weekly Playboy. "Our New Half (transsexual) DVDs sell real well. We've even got a special corner set up for them," a spokesman for Ramutara Akihabara, a major retailer of erotic movies, tells Weekly Playboy..."The movies themselves usually sold for more than 10,000 yen apiece and it was mostly older people with a bit more money who bought them. Now, though, you can buy them for the same price as a normal adult movie, at around 2,000 yen or thereabouts. Now, more younger people are inclined to buy them"...Masaya Ito, arguably Japan's foremost maker of movies featuring transsexuals, says the new-found popularity of the genre is not just about price. "Most of the New Half movies that came out until recently were clearly tacky and were made like they were dealing with some kind of perversion," he says. "Packaging on recent movies, though, is all about making the stars look like wonderful women. And that has made them more accessible to fans"...more...
Amazon link to Miruku Aima DVD. Cover picture is pixellated but not entirely appropriate for here. Or work.
