Sex and Zen II

Sex and Zen II
Traditional Chinese	玉蒲團II玉女心經
Simplified Chinese	玉蒲团II玉女心经
Hanyu Pinyin	Ròupútuán Èr Yùnǚxīnjīng
Jyutping	Yuk6 Pou4 Tyun4 Ji6 Juk6 Jyu5 Sam1 Ging1
Directed by	Chin Man Kei
Written by	Elvis Tsui (as "Sai Moon-Gin")
Produced by	Wong Jing
Starring	Loletta Lee Shu Qi Elvis Tsui
Cinematography	Cheung Man Po
Edited by	Ma Go
Music by	Angus Yam Lok Leng Wik
Production companies	Golden Harvest Company Wong Jing's Workshop Ltd.
Distributed by	Gala Film Distribution Limited
Release date	1996 (1996)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	8.58 M. HK$ (Hong Kong)

Sex and Zen II (Chinese: 玉蒲團II玉女心經, "The Carnal Prayer Mat II - Jade Maiden Heart Sutra") is a 1996 Hong Kong erotic comedy film directed by Chin Man Kei. The film is a sequel to Sex and Zen (1991), and it was followed by Sex and Zen III (1998).

Background

Sex and Zen II is partially an adaptation of the Tsui Hark film The Lovers, which is itself based on Butterfly Lovers and the lead actor Elvis Tsui's character Sai Moon-Kin (西門堅, pinyin: Xīmén Jiān) is related to the Water Margin character and Jin Ping Mei protagonist Ximen Qing. The film's Chinese title and the martial arts sequences are a reference to the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra (玉女心經, Yùnǚxīnjīng), a fictional scripture in Jin Yong's The Return of the Condor Heroes.

Plot

Sai Moon-Kin (Tsui) is a rich man who lives with his concubines and his son and a daughter named Yiau (Loletta Lee), who is raised like a boy and is ignorant of the ways of love. Because her brother is intellectually disabled, Yiau wants to be her father's heir but feels that she needs to go to school for the required education. Her desire to attend school leads her to a love affair with a lustful young scholar (Ken Lok). Only after she is equipped by a protective chastity belt, does her father let Yiau go to school, guised in drag.

Sai Moon finds his son's new wife Siu-Tsui (Shu Qi) attractive. He does not realize that she is the evil Mirage Lady, who knows "sucking" magic. Yiau and the Iron Man (Ben Ng) try to stop the Mirage Lady from harming any more people.

Cast

• Loletta Lee as Yiau
• Ken Lok as Fa
• Ben Ng as Ironman
• Shu Qi as Mirage Lady/Siu-Tsui
• Elvis Tsui as Sai Moon-Kin
• Wong Yat Fei as Monk

External links

• Sex and Zen II at IMDb
• lovehkfilm entry