Sex and Zen

Original title: Yuk po tuen: Tau ching bo gam

19911991
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1h 39min

A man marries a beautiful wife, but decides to go out and experience as many sexual conquests as possible, with unusual and often hilarious results. Meanwhile, his wife is forced to enter a ... Read allA man marries a beautiful wife, but decides to go out and experience as many sexual conquests as possible, with unusual and often hilarious results. Meanwhile, his wife is forced to enter a brothel and work as a prostitute.A man marries a beautiful wife, but decides to go out and experience as many sexual conquests as possible, with unusual and often hilarious results. Meanwhile, his wife is forced to enter a brothel and work as a prostitute.

Director
- Michael Mak
Writers
- Alexander Lee(dialogue)
- Ying-Chiet Lee
- Yu Li(novel "The Carnal Prayer Mat")
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Awards
- 1 nomination

Elvis Tsui in Yuk po tuen: Tau ching bo gam (1991)

Director
- Michael Mak
Writers
- Alexander Lee(dialogue)
- Ying-Chiet Lee
- Yu Li(novel "The Carnal Prayer Mat")
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A recently married scholar goes on a quest for knowledge of other people's wives, based on his philosophical differences with the Sack Monk. He encounters the Flying Thief, who agrees to help him find women, but only if he attains a penis as big as a horse's. The scholar has a surgeon attach said unit, and he's off and running on his mission, only to find that there are obstacles to his new lifestyle, such as jealous husbands and treacherous females.

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Taglines
- The art of sex.
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for strong sexual content
Parents guide

Alternate versions
UK video versions were cut by the BBFC. The original Cantonese print was cut by 4 mins 21 secs with additional cuts of 5 secs for the dubbed version. The Contender DVD releases restore most of the previous edits with 37 secs still cut from two rape scenes.

Connections
Featured in Underwater Nude Scenes (2016)

Top review

Penthouse sexy

There's no Zen here, which someone slapped on the English title, just the sex. A needy imperial scholar goes around trying to have lots of it. We see areolas rubbing together. Two women in all fours share a flute. Calligraphy brushes, whips and chains, some bondage. It has proper decor and costumes, a sense of plot. It's still Emmanuella stuff.

The same thing grates as in all the other skin flicks. Is sex just two bodies slathering together? In a teenager's mind maybe or if sexy means seeing a boob. Or is it a matter of context you inhabit, in which you change someone? More proper to call it sexual or erotic, it has started long before you enter the room and glows long after. Women know about this more than we do. Mind blowing sex is always with someone you know or can harness yourself in a context in which you do; the rest is monkeying around to extinguish a boner.

So what's sexy about a thing like this? What's deviant or risky? Cardboard characters who we don't know in the slightest go around rubbing themselves on each other. One pretends to be ravished, another pretends to be aroused at being whipped. It's like fake bondage for a Penthouse spread.

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