3D porn film 'sells thousands of tickets' - watch YouTube trailer

3D porn film Sex And Zen: Extreme Ecstasy is about to open in Hong Kong and has already sold thousands of tickets, with people preparing to travel from mainland China to see it.

The huge success of 3D Sex And Zen: Extreme Ecstasy has catapulted its stars to worldwide fame, in particular the three leading actresses Vonnie Lui, Yukiko Suo and Saori Hara.

Loosely based on Li Yus seventeen century classical Chinese erotic literature, The Carnal Prayer Mat, the raunchy Category III film, directed by Hong Kong director Christopher Sun Lap Key, chronicles the story of a young man who, after being introduced to the erotic world of a duke, realises his ex-wife is the love of his life and features orgies, swinging and some very graphic sex scenes.

Vonnie Lui Hoi Yan is a Hong Kong busty porn star. Yukiko Suo and Saori Hara are both Japanese AV idols (adult video idol). An AV idols work in the pornographic business, often both as actress as well as model with the video performances ranging from just the idol doing chores in bikinis around their house to hardcore porn.

Since the dawn of the AV industry in the early 1980s, hundreds of AV idols have debuted every year, with an average career span of about a year, appearing in five or ten videos during that time.

Notable AV idols have careers spanning several years, have a high general public recognition, or make a significant impact on the industry in some other manner.

The line between “adult” and family entertainment in Japan is not as clear-cut as it is in some other countries. A celebrity may appear in AVs after already having established a career in mainstream television. Also, it is not rare for a popular AV actress to go on to mainstream celebrity. A background in porn is not necessarily a skeleton in the cupboard anymore. In some cases, its a career move.

The AV, or “Adult Video” market is a major industry in Japan, reportedly worth about 400 billion per year. In 1992, it was reported that over 11 AVs were being made every day by over 70 production companies in Tokyo alone. The AV market was estimated to make up about 30 percent of Japan’s video rentals. It was estimated in 1994 that, between legal and illegal videos, around 14,000 AVs a year were being made in the country, in contrast to about 2,500 in the United States.

AV actresses are usually recruited by scouts in Tokyo neighborhoods such as Roppongi, Shinjuku and Shibuya. These scouts are affiliated with talent agencies who then hire the actresses to the AV production companies. Some women wishing to appear in AVs apply to the production companies, but they are usually referred to the talent agencies. The production companies are typically charged 1.5 million or more for an actress to appear in a video. AV actresses make between 200,000 and 4 million yen per video.

Steve Scott, president of Third World Media, an importer of Japanese adult movies to the United States, estimated a top-tier AV star could make up to nearly 36 million for an eight picture deal.

AV fans are invited to follow the progress of a prominent AV actress’ career over several video appearances. In her AV debut video, the actress is introduced as a “new face,” and her inexperience is played up in interviews preceding the modeling and sex scenes. Following this debut video, the AV audience follows the actress’ journey through sexual awakening, and her eventual specialization, after about five AV appearances, in a specific genre such as lesbianism or SM.

Once the actress has established herself as a mature AV star, she has the options of continuing into some of the more outrageous AV genres, retiring, or, sometimes, re-emerging under a new name as a “new face.” With the immense publicity surrounding 3D Sex And Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, there has been a great deal of googling for more information and photos of Yukiko Suo and Saori Hara. I will
feature these two AV stars in my next two articles. So stay tuned!