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Sex and Zen [VHS] Reviews
Sex and Zen [VHS] Reviews
| 54 of 55 people found the following review helpful  Read the book for the plot, watch this for beautiful women!, This review is from: SEX AND ZEN (DVD) A young Buddhist scholar rejects the teachings of his master, who advocates complete abstinence from all physical pleasure in order to attain enlightenment, and goes in search of a good time, and soon discovers that in order to get the girls he desires, he's going to need bigger equipment. Much bigger equipment in fact. Something that a horse would have. But too much of a good thing can only lead to trouble, and he eventually finds that the old monk may not have been full of wind after all. Shallow, directionless, soft-core, and stupid. A very twisted and just plain daft interpretation of The Carnal Prayer Mat, the famously-banned `Yellow' novel by Li Yu. It isn't a yellow novel really; most of those critics entirely missed the point. But this HK adaption is indeed gratuitous, and really does seem to be just an excuse to see a lot of very beautiful women gyrate and moan in revealing clothing, or indeed, no clothing whatsoever. The moral Buddhist message about animal... Read more 62 of 66 people found the following review helpful  My first exposure to Amy Yip, This review is from: SEX AND ZEN (DVD) I initally got this film to humor a friend of mine. Then it turns out, it had me rolling on the floor with laughter for a majority of it. I liked it so much that I got the sequal. And this movie made me a fan of Amy Yip. If you want good erotic humor, Sex and Zen is a way to go.This film is based on the classic book 'The Prayer-Mat of Flesh'. And it follows our main characther who is a scholar whose only pursuit is that of a carnal nature. He marries the most powerful man in the area's daughter so that he may have protection from the husbands of married women he carries on with. As his marriage begins, his wife is a virgin whom he introduces to sex, and as he wanders she has a desire for it that grows as well with longing while he's gone. Our dear scholar befriends the best thief in the land, and learns another secret to seduction...that being one that involves genetalia. So our hapless scholar enlists the help of a crazy doctor to transplant a horse phallus in the place of his... Read more 41 of 49 people found the following review helpful  What a thoroughly bizarre film., By This review is from: SEX AND ZEN (DVD) Going solely by a few reviews here, I bought this film with the assumption that it would be a steamy comedy. While there are some very steamy scenes indeed, the "comedy" is so low-brow as to not even raise a chuckle. ... While a couple of the sex scenes are very good, there is one that is basically a violent rape of a battered woman, and another that is very close to rape (although the women of course end up enjoying the experience, naturally.) There is also a forced abortion, and a woman being forced into slavery, some things I wouldn't expect to find in a comedy at all. There are a couple of Buddhist sentiments tossed in at the beginning and at the end, but by and large, this is just soft core porn - the story line makes little sense, and is just a cheap way to get from one sex scene to the next. I'd expect that in flat-out pornographic films, but in something trying to pass itself off as something else...well, I was disappointed. Some of the colors, fabrics and textures... Read more |
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