The Golden Lotus

The Golden Lotus (1974)

1974
October 8, 2020

Golden Lotus is based, in part, on Jin Ping Mei, a famous erotic novel of ancient China. Li Han-Hsiang adapted part of the story into this film, which starts with Hsi Men Ching, a successful merchant, wooing Pan Chin Lien, the beautiful wife of one of the townspeople. There have been many film versions of “The Golden Lotus”, but none have combined artistry with sensuality as successfully as this 1974 classic, featuring three of the […]

Sex and Zen III (1998)

1998

The plot follows new prostitutes Susan (Karen Yeung), Fanny (Tung Yi), and Chinyun (Chung Chun), who are inducted into the Fragrance House brothel where they are trained in the ways of lovemaking by their veteran madam Tall Kau. Eventually, all three enter circulation where Susan is crowned the top prize and becomes enamored of budding scholar Chu Chi-Ang. Fanny is jealous beyond all means and though she’s bought by famous horse trader Sir Lui (Category […]

Airport 2012 (2014) (Short)

2014

‘Airport 2012’ chronicles an alienating partner-swapping encounter in a New Jersey motel on Election Day, 2012. Four very different characters interact in darkly comic and unsettling ways – no one ever really connects with anyone else in an activity that had been orchestrated, ironically, expressly for the purpose of connection, or at the very least sexual connection. The day and then the night pass; two couples have ‘fun’; a president is re-elected, and by morning […]

Além da Paixão (1986) aka Happily Ever After

1986

In São Paulo, a married woman in her 30s lives with husband and two offsprings; she’s Fernanda, an interior designer. Shortly after her father’s death, a vivid dream disorients her: she dances with a man in women’s clothing. The next day, she meets a young man who looks like the man in her dreams; he’s Miguel, a male prostitute who lives with a transvestite, Bom-Bom. Miguel steals money from Fernanda’s purse, but still she seeks […]

Tsuma no Haha Sayuri (2011) aka Wife’s Mother Sayuri

2011

Akihito, the main character is a white-collar worker. He has a wife, Akane, but she runs away from home with her lover. When he is at a loss what to do, he comes to a former lover for comfort: Fujino, his aunt. She’s the woman who took away his virginity but decided to leave him after having one final sex with him to marry her fiance. But now, she’s divorced and decides to hook up […]

I’m Watching You (1997)

1997

LoriDawn plays a naive, hometown girl who comes to apartment-sit in an artist’s loft for a friend and fellow artist. Enter friendly neighbor Lovell, a carefree art model who shows her new acquaintance the ways of exhibitionist freedom and voyeurism.The storyline — often minimal in such movies — is a respectable attempt at a “Rear Window” or “Body Double” type plot, as our lovely lead gets more than she bargains for in her newfound voyeuristic […]

Burning Snow (1988)

1988
September 1, 2020

A young woman is fo...d to marry an older man who runs a roadhouse saloon. She is constantly being railed by her husband, a drunken loutish brute. She harbors a young man wanted by the police in a mu..er case, and soon the fugitive and the young wife have a torrid affair as she continues to hide him from the authorities.

The Best (1976) aka La ragazza alla pari

1976

“The Best” is an Italian sex comedy starring Gloria Guida who plays an incredibly stupid “au pair girl” who, after losing her virginity in a train tunnel, comes to work for a greedy couple who make money by renting her out to all the other tenants in their building–a hooker, a lesbian, an in-hock father and his sexy gold-digging daughter, a closeted gay politician, a dying old man, and pretty much every other Italian sex […]