Before Michael Mak’s Sex And Zen became a cult favourite in the ’90s, there was Ho Fan’s Yu Pui Tsuen (The Carnal Prayer Mat, 1987). But without sex bomb Amy Yip, coarse humour or lesbian love affairs, Yu Pui Tsuen had to rely on the nudity and sex from his cast of relative unknowns to save the day. When a young man dreams that he drowns after a night of carnal passion, he asks a buddhist monk to translate the experience for him. The monk replies that the dream is a warning not to indulge the pleasures of the flesh to excess, but the man ignores his advice, marrying a virgin and making love to her constantly. However, after several torrid affairs, the man begins to realise the sagacity of the monk's warning.
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3 films
Cast
29 people
邓耀辉
Cheng Yuen-man
Yu Xiang
Known for
Angel Terminators
Manfred Wong Man-chun
Known for
Sixty Million Dollar Man
Erotic Ghost Story
Ho Fan
Also in
The Cave of the Silken Web
Blind Swordswoman
邓仲坤
Also in
Saturday Date
Chou Ying-Ti
Woodcutter's Wife
Also in
Black Leopard
Romance on the Highway
Yuen-Man Cheng
Eliza Yue Chi-Wai
Bai Xiang-yun
Also in
Curse
Ghost Fever
Chi-Wai Yu
Sun Chien
Woodcutter
Known for
The Five Venoms
Crippled Avengers
Chien Sun
Joh Chung-Sing
Sai Kun-lun
Also in
Crazy Love
The Haunted Cop Shop
Ho Fan Director · Manfred Wong Man-chun Writer
First release October 15, 1987 · Produced in Hong Kong SAR China · Original title 足本玉蒲團
Production
Hong Kong SAR China
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Original title
足本玉蒲團
Original language
Cantonese
Spoken on screen
Cantonese
Release dates
Hong Kong SAR China · October 15, 1987
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No release date listed for United States.
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