Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, while not the world’s first 3D porn, is fast becoming its most prominent, beating Avatar‘s opening-day record when it opened last week in Hong Kong. It just goes to show you, Chinese people love traveling two days by bus to go jerk off in a room full of people wearing goggles. James Cameron, meanwhile, can afford to have Chinese masturbators bused to him.
Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy took HK$2.78m (£219,000) [$362,110] on its first day last week, compared to James Cameron’s epic which earned HK$2.63m (£207,000) [$342,269].
The film has now taken HK$17m (£1.34m) [$2.2 million] in the five days since its release.
Takings have been boosted by an influx of viewers travelling from mainland China where it is not being screened. [BBC]
No porno?!? Reagan was right, Communism sucks.
The movie, which stars Japanese porn stars Hara Saori and Suo Yukiko and Hong Kong actress Vonnie Liu, tells the story of a sexually frustrated scholar in ancient China who loses himself in the harem of a duke he befriends.
Weak, I was hoping a movie called “extreme ecstasy” would have more skysurfing, or at least a Red Bull shower.
Sex and Zen features full nudity and camouflaged lovemaking scenes but does not show actual sexual intercourse, as is common in pornographic films.
Pornographic films often depicting people having sex, you say?? (*drops monocle, sends hastily-worded telegram*) Also, people are traveling hours by bus for sh*tty softcore trash with no dongs going in?!? That is terrible. LET THEM HAVE CINEMAX! MR. JINTAO, JIZZ DOWN THIS WALL! We should start a charity.
“Sex and Zen” has also been released in about a dozen theaters in Chinese communities in the Australian cities Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The movie is scheduled to be released in South Korea on May 12, and in France, Italy and India in June. Hong Kong theater operators have also sought to cash in on the novelty factor by staging women-only screenings. [NPR]
Women-only screenings? I’d work that BOX office, ifyaknowwhatImeanamirite? Also, I always assumed a “Chinese porno” was where, during an orgy, everyone jumps up, runs around the bed three times and switches partners while “Yakety Sax” plays. (*softshoes off stage, circling hands*)