FAQ

The Chinese mainland ist he most important sales market for HK movies which is why the production company didnt make the effort to show 3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy in movie theaters in the first place, due to the strict national censorship. Instead, smart travel businesses offered special trips from the Chinese mainland to HK with the opportunity of going to special screenings. A six-digit number of interested film fans made use of it. However, the movie was sold to other countries pretty well and, depending on the restrictions in the particular countries, some alterations needed to be made or not. For Asian neighboring countries, the distributor edited the appropriate version for the given situation himself (!) to sell the rights successfully.

Besides the Original Theatrical Version, a 15 min longer Director's Cut was generated. Most of the releases are based on this DC. The DC reveals: apart from some plot tightenings, several cuts for censorship reasons were necessary. Nevertheless, both the HK Theatrical Version and the DC got the infamous CAT III-Rating. The DC contains extensions in graphic violence & sex scenes. Illustrations of sexual assaults are longer as well. But there are contrary alterations, too. Its possible that the director intended to remove too cynical shots from his own version. The Director's Cut is not just a movie that contains a couple of extra scenes and thats it. No, absolutely not. Its simply another version with multiple differences of any kind. Besides lots of newly added and only a few removed scenes, the DC also contains alternate shots, different order of scenes or newly arranged scenes. Furthermore, the score has been replaced and so have simple sound effects.