3D Sex And Zen Was Box Office Boffo, Beat Avatar Opening In Hong Kong

3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy is a 2011 Hong Kong 3-D erotic costume drama film released in Hong Kong, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand on 14 April 2011. It is a new installment of the Sex and Zen series, but more dark and dramatic as well as occasionally paying homage to the humour of the original series.  On its opening day in 2011, Sex and Zen, brought in around US$360,000. In contrast, Avatar earned only about US$320,000 on its opening day in 2009.  Writer Von Capulong observed, “director Stephen Shiu Sr. listened to his colleague, James Cameron, that 3-D will be the next big thing in the film industry.”

The plot involves a conceited Ming Dynasty scholar called Wei Yangsheng who believes that since life is short, one should pursue the ultimate sexual pleasure as time permits. By chance, he meets Yuxiang, the daughter of the Taoist priest Tie Fei, falls in love with her on first sight, and marries her. Yuxiang is elegant and courteous under the influence of her father’s faith, though her lack of passion cannot fully satisfy Wei Yangsheng’s sexual needs. His disappointment is no less than his affection for her. He ventures in search of ways to increase his sex drive and performance in bed.

Meanwhile after divorcing Tie Fei, Yangshen finally understands his true love is Tie Fei and tries to get her back.

The first Sex and Zen (traditional Chinese: 玉蒲團之偷情寶鑑, Yù pútuán zhī tōuqíng bǎojiàn) is a 1991 Hong Kong erotic comedy film directed by Michael Mak and starring Lawrence Ng and Amy Yip.

The film is loosely based on The Carnal Prayer Mat, a Chinese erotic novel by 17th century author and playwright Li Yu.

The story is about a lustful scholar (played by Lawrence Ng) who dares to challenge the moral teachings of the Sack Monk. The monk attempts to lecture the scholar that spiritual enlightenment transcends the passions of the flesh but the scholar, who enjoys women, doesn’t agree. However, the most powerful man in the town marries his daughter, played by Amy Yip, to the scholar. The daughter is a virgin and has been taught that sex is dirty.

The scholar, after a disastrous yet humorous wedding night, soon initiates his bride into the pleasures of sex, aided greatly by the illustrations of a copy of a sex manual. The amorous husband goes about his ‘scholastic travels’ where he meets the greatest thief known to man. The thief is able to sneak into people’s houses undetected, and the scholar wants to learn this skill so that he can sleep with other men’s wives. The thief was initially willing to help him, until he catches the scholar one day and discovers that the scholar is not very well-endowed.

The thief tells the scholar that stealing other men’s wives requires good lovemaking skills and equipment. The thief promises to help the scholar only if he has a horse’s penis. Of course, the thief didn’t think it was possible, until the scholar returned one day, indeed, with a horse’s penis attached as his own. Apparently, the scholar met a doctor who was able to replace anatomical parts (a scene with a cameo by Hong Kong comedian Kent Cheng).

The doctor managed to transplant a horse’s penis to replace the scholar’s meager one. Armed with his new 20-inch penis, the scholar goes on a sexual rampage, not caring if he is seducing other men’s wives or is nearly caught in the process. Meanwhile, the scholar’s wife, after experiencing the joys of sex, becomes sexually frustrated. She tried masturbating with paintbrushes but is left unsatisfied until she has an affair with the gardener, the husband of one of the wives the scholar seduced. She becomes