If you've been following along with these Japanese Pink films, you already know the deal. An hour of simulated gay sex, a little story baked in, and a premise that's completely ridiculous but somehow keeps you watching. This one goes all in on the body swap fantasy, basically asking the question, what if you woke up one day inside your hot friend's body and could finally act out everything you've been keeping to yourself? Atsushi is gay and has been quietly carrying a crush on his childhood friend Yuma for years. They fell out of touch but end up back in each other's lives when they wind up at the same company. Yuma is straight and has a girlfriend, though things between them aren't exactly great. Then one day, after some kind of signing strike, the two men swap bodies, and suddenly Yuma is walking around in Atsushi's skin and Atsushi is living inside the guy he's been fantasizing about forever. Atsushi wastes zero time taking full advantage, fooling aro...
The story is simple. Set in countryside we see Mike who works in a small farm and has his close friend Dan working for him. Mike is obviously attracted to Dan and it seems Dan returns the favor. But Dan is to satisfied being and living at the far, . He is a drifter and wants to travel but Mike seems content. We meet Gary, a young teenage boy who lives in the neighborhood with his abusive stepfather who beats him and his brother regularly. Gary is drawn to the camaraderie of the young farmhands in part to avoid his problems at home. When an innocent session of skinny-dipping is misconstrued by the boy's father, the young hired hands soon find themselves unjustly suspected of wrongdoing in a suddenly hostile small town. The boys stepfather suddenly makes everyone on the town believe that two boys are pervert. Mike takes the whole event more seriously and decides it time for him to move on. It's his inability to commit to a longer relationship, once faced with the hostility of the isolated community in which he has found himself, that is central to his film.
The two men spend most of their time half naked working in the farm , hanging out and together making clay objects. The clay work representing images of dwarves, half animal and beast figures, and a large feminine figure with the head of a man clearly spells out the characters’ perception of themselves as possible bisexual beings at home in bodies. As much as the film is about the two men, it is more about the town's silence or indifference to the abuse given the neighbor to his step son and wife. Mike even notices marks on the boy’s body clearly from abuse, and tells Gary that if his father even touches him again to come to them, a statement representing the very kind of offer which Dan has warned him previously can only lead to problems. You can tell from a mile where the story is headed and what can possibly happen. So as much as the film is interesting, it is also frustrating to watch because it never rally address ether the sexuality issue or the abuse issue head-on. This could have been a story about a couple of young gay guys trying to make a life working on a farm, or a coming of age story; but it ends up being neither unfortunately. It lacks making a point. As actors, two men do a good job, look good and hot and have good chemistry. Surely times were different then, but it's a story that could have been so much more than what it gives. (4.5/10)
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