China goes wild for 3D porn film (Sex & Zen 3D)

[bradavon]

I thought this deserved it's own thread:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/apr ... m-released

Discuss.

[Yi-Long]

"Cumshots have never looked so frightening!"

It's just a porn-flick with 3d. What's there to discuss!? I like porn. I love asian porn. I don't give a shit about 3D, but 3D boobies might convert me into a believer, so I don't know...

Plus it's Sex & Zen, which is pretty damn tame as far as porn goes I believe, but I'm not sure cause I've never really seen the original I think.

[gasteropod]

I've experienced something like 3D porn before, it's called sex

[bradavon]

I've experienced something like 3D porn before, it's called sex

Ha ha . Good point.

[HungFist]

Porn? Typical tabloid wording, I guess. I mean, this doesn't really have anything to do with porn, does it?

I saw a trailer for this long time ago. Had some hilarious 3D in it. Other than that, I can't really find anything to get excited about.

As for 3D tits, Fukasaku already served us a very nice pair last year
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... f=1&t=5479

[luckystars]

Porn? Typical tabloid wording, I guess. I mean, this doesn't really have anything to do with porn, does it?

I saw a trailer for this long time ago. Had some hilarious 3D in it. Other than that, I can't really find anything to get excited about.

As for 3D tits, Fukasaku already served us a very nice pair last year
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... f=1&t=5479

Yeah I'm still w@nking over those pics

[oldeschool17]

Meh, let me know when japan hops on this bandwagon. Chinese soft core bores the hell out of me.

[HungFist]

By Patrick Frater
Thu, 14 April 2011, 10:15 AM (HKT)

Distribution News

Today sees the release of 3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (3D肉蒲團之極樂寶鑑) in Taiwan and Hong Kong, where a $3 million indie film is treated like a major studio release.

Distributor for hire, Newport Entertainment (新寶娛樂有限公司) has secured 246 screenings in Hong Kong on opening day, with several multiplexes programming it on multiple screens. Of the major complexes, only the territory's biggest cinema, The Grand Cinema in Kowloon, is not showing the film.

More enterprising outfits have decided to embrace the film and its novelty value. The UA cinema chain is putting on women-only sessions at one venue in Hong Kong Island and another in Kowloon's Mongkok district. Many shows were sold out days ago or are selling front-row seats only.

Tour groups from mainland China, where the film is not scheduled to be screened, are also expected to deliver a cross-border audience that has not been seen since Ang Lee's (李安) Lust, Caution (色,戒).

While Newport does not quite have the field to itself, there are no Hollywood studio movies launching against Ecstasy this week. The highest profile competing release is horror franchise Scream 4. Other new openers include South Korean torture porn thriller I Saw The Devil (악마를 보았다, which like Ecstasy carries a Category III rating) and Franco-Australian metaphorical drama The Tree.

The Cantonese-language Ecstasy is a 3-D revival by producer and screenwriter Stephen Shiu Jnr (蕭若元) of his father's 1991 film Sex And Zen (玉蒲團之偷情寶鑑). Based on a 17th century novel The Carnal Prayer Mat, it tells the story of a young man who befriends a duke and enters a world of royal orgies and other sexual peccadilloes. The film features Japanese porn stars Hara Saori (原紗央莉) and Suo Yukiko (周防ゆきこ) and a local actress, Vonnie Liu (雷凱欣).

Ecstasy has been arousing Hong Kong audiences for several weeks. When advanced preview tickets went on sale in March, eager spectators camped out overnight in Wanchai district. Before that a teaser campaign during Chinese New Year was removed from holiday hotspot Victoria Park, but not before tens of thousands of people were warmed by the anticipation of the big-screen voyeurism.

Although Hong Kong regularly tops lists of sexually conservative territories in Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan, where it is handled by Long Shong (龍祥), will be showing Ecstasy in its full version. Singapore censors demanded the removal of 18 minutes, due not only to the explicitness of the sex, but also because the film depicts monks in sexual activity. The version to be shown in South Korea through Hwa & Dam Entertainment (화앤담이엔티) will be 3 minutes shorter than the Hong Kong cut, having had an orgy scene removed.

Shui says the sexual content is pitched somewhere stronger than soft-core movies, but not as extreme as Caligula. Although the latter did not have the eye-popping extra dimension that comes with 3-D.

It remains to be seen what audiences make of it all. Early reviews described Ecstasy as a film of two halves, with a soft-core beginning turning altogether darker and nastier. The second half features rapes, sado-masochism and a death in the saddle.

- http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/ecstasy-en ... -hk-taiwan

[bradavon]

A death in the saddle?

[Markgway]

Damn those horse porn movies!!

[HungFist]

Linked to immediately below is the Variety review of the 113-minute Australian version - as distinguished from the 129-minute integral version and 118-minute Hong Kong version - of 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy.

Variety: 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy review

YouTube: 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy Hong Kong trailer

YouTube: 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy promo video

3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy official website

[bradavon]

Who's the woman in gold in the trailer? Stunning.

[grim_tales]

Yeah she's yummy

[HungFist]

BBFC ask for 2 minutes of cuts to Sex and Zen 3D
- http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/bw.htm#On ... rship_3779

[bradavon]

Not surprising. I bet it's the Chinese 9 Songs anyway.

[Markgway]

It's not hardcore.

[HungFist]

Ok, so we have:
- 113-minute Australian version
- 129-minute Integral version
- 118-minute Hong Kong version
- xxx-minute UK Version

And the German's are releasing it, too, no doubt cut by local censors...

The HK home video versions will be out next week...
Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (Blu-ray) (2D Theatrical Version) (Hong Kong Version) Blu-ray Region A
Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (Blu-ray) (3D Theatrical Version) (Hong Kong Version) Blu-ray Region A
Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (DVD) (2D Extended Edition) (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region 3
Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (DVD) (2D Theatrical Version) (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region 3
Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (DVD) (2D+3D Theatrical Version) (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region 3
Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (VCD) (Theatrical Version) (Hong Kong Version) VCD

...

no, I'm not kidding:
http://www.yesasia.com/us/sex-zen-extre ... /info.html

[Markgway]

Greedy cocks should put the 2D and 3D and extended cuts in the one package.

[bradavon]

BBFC ask for 2 minutes of cuts to Sex and Zen 3D
- http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/bw.htm#On ... rship_3779

According to this:

"Metrodome were required to make two minutes of cuts to scenes of non consensual and violent sex but the strong sex scenes have been passed uncut at '18'."

This implies it's going to be released cut at 15 and if so it's Metrodome's fault for releasing it cut. I cannot find the submission on the BBFC's website to confirm. Can anyone else?

Source: http://hcc.techradar.com/blogs/team-hcc ... r-05-08-11

[grim_tales]

Eh? They're saying it needed 2 minutes of cuts for an 18 certificate

[Markgway]

Grim's right, the cuts were made for an '18' cert. The BBFC are still under the impression that rape scenes will damage adult viewers and that we must be protected from them.

[grim_tales]

If I want to buy, I'll get the HK DVD then...

[HungFist]

Theatrical Cur vs. Director's Cut:
http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittb ... ?ID=129078

[HungFist]

ok, I wasn't originally interested in this one, but now circumstances have changed... it's included in the Night Visions film fest program, and will be screening in 3D on one of the biggest screens in Finland. This is surreal. Gonna be giant boobs in 3D

The fest is actually held in a much smaller two screen theater (although both screens are still quite big) which is understandable considering the key program consists of good stuff like Lady Terminator (1988, Indonesia), Profondo rosso (1975, Italy), The Bronx Warriors (1981, Italy) etc. ... but they have special screening of Sex & Zen 3D is the second biggest multiplex in Helsinki...

Like they say, it may be a while untill something like this hits the Finnish screens again

[Markgway]

Make sure you wear your raincoat...