Independent British distributors Metrodome Video are set to release on Blu-ray Christopher Suen's
Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy. The film has shattered box office records across the Asia Pacific region, including Hong Kong and Singapore, and in the UK The Guardian Online has suggested that it could be the saviour of 3D cinema.
Metrodome Video 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'".
Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy was released uncut in Hong Kong and in Australia, but is currently banned in Mainland China. In the U.S., the film has earnt an NC17 rating from the MPAA, which means that nobody under the age of 18 will be permitted to see it.
An adaptation of the classic novel
The Carnal Prayer Mat, the film follows a young Ming Dynasty scholar named Wei Yangsheng on an eye-opening journey of sexual discovery.
Street date for
Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy is January 16th.