Trans Allegories in Film: 'Your Name' (2016)
Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.

Imagine being able to travel back into time and be welcomed into the intimate bedrooms of the most notorious women ever to embarrass history. Well it happens to Walter Brooks thanks to Miracle Myers' time machine – just when he needs it most. First, Walter finds himself alone with the sultry Cleopatra who draws Walter into the steaming depths of her inner, secret pleasures. From there he travels to explore the innocent young flower, Juliet, with Romeo courting her from beneath her window. This seduction is so successful, however, that Juliet falls in love with Walter and follows him back to the 20th Century, creating a paradox in paradise and putting Walter in deep trouble.
Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.
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