Latest 3-D Milestone is Just Some More Smut From Asia

James Cameron may be the king of 3-D technology in box offices and press conferences but when it comes to the bedroom, that title goes to a Hong Kong director. Meet Christopher Sun, who this week premiered his period drama Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, which is being billed as "the first stereoscopic 3-D erotica from Hong Kong." Exciting?

Kinda! Hundreds of Hong Kong citizens showed up at the official opening of the history-making soft-core porn film. About "a young man [who] befriends a duke and enters a world of royal orgies and other sexual peccadilloes"; the film cost $3 million to make last August.

For Yen, the production was a family affair of sorts, which makes this all the more creepy; the film is an adaptation of his father's 1991 Sex and Zen, which, according to Reuters "was Hong Kong's highest-grossing adult film for over a decade." Both films are based on a classic Chinese erotic text The Carnal Prayer Mat.

Not only is the film already a hit in Hong Kong, but many moviegoers from censorship-bound mainland China are booking trips expressly for Sex and Zen.

Before you start researching airfare to Hong Kong, though, rest assured that America is also making its own 3-D pornography advances. Hustler is reportedly working on a 3-D porn spoof of Avatar while Italian director Tinto Brass is in early talks to filmi a 3-D adaptation of Caligula. Cameron wasn't kidding when he said "everything" would be produced in 3-D, was he?

· Sex & Zen at premiere of Hong Kong's first 3D erotic film [Reuters]