Chinese Kamasutra (1994) Poster

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Joe in China
BandSAboutMovies19 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Joan Parker (Giorgia Emerald, who only appeared in this film) works in a Chinese library and she turns down every man brave enough to try and pick her up until she finds the Chinese Kamasutra on the shelves and the black and white illustrations get her all excited like The Joy of Sex's hairy bodies did for your parents in the mid 70s and she discovers liberation. Also, a sex cult is spying on her because she's a character in a Chang Lee Sun film.

Yes, that's Joe D'Amato.

Anyways, this sex cult lives right next to Joan and they've been after her forever, even in a past life, and they have a dildo altar because, again, this is a Joe D'Amato movie.

Also, the Kama Sutra is a Hindu Indian book and not Chinese.

I have no idea why Giorgia Emerald only made this one movie. Sure, her performance isn't the best ever, but she's incredibly attractive and seemingly perfect for the D'Amato softcore world. As it is, you can tell that he's not invested at all in this movie and simply making films at this stage to make money. Some moments of strangeness still emerge and for those of us who are completists, this is one more to check off our lists.
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Poor mixed-combo porn effort from Mighty Joe D'Amato
lor_25 January 2011
Joe D'Amato cranked out dozens of hardcore porn videos for the Butterfly Motion Pictures label, but this NEARLY-hardcore stinker is even worse than his XXX output.

It's a shame, because Big Joe cast a uniquely beautiful leading lady in the person of Giorgia Emerald, playing librarian Joan who's working in a southern province of China.

Preposterous storyline involves reincarnation which immediately reinforced my initial dismay: Why did Joe & crew set this story in China instead of a proper Indian setting for the kamasutra? Adding insult to injury, the cast (to my untrained eye) seems made up of Filipino or Thai performers, not Chinese.

Perhaps the worst aspect of this flop is Joe's re-use of some footage, styled as a flashback wherein a Princess and her lover jump to their death rather than be captured by guards, played over & over & over, obvious padding condoned under the rubric of "dream sequences".

The dead lover is supposedly centuries later the head of a kamasutra religious cult, which gets hold of Joan and tortures her sexually for the duration of the film.

It' very poorly shot and edited, sort of a destitute man's imitation of similar junk made (over & over again) by the likes of Jean Rollin and Jess Franco. If this were a round-robin elimination tournament to select the best of the worst, poor D'Amato would be gone, simply for poaching.

Only reason to suffer through this exceedingly boring opus is to feast one'e eyes on Emerald, a porn version of Jacqueline Bisset. How such a classy looking dame got shanghaied into this free trip to Bangkok or Manila is beyond me, but I had visions of a porn remake of THE DEEP as my mind wandered from the non-action on screen.

Supporting cast of Oriental performers does a poor job, with the various women hired to adore and finger "Princess" Emerald in the ritualistic lesbian scenes looking completely uninterested and incompetent. Forget about Joe -wasn't there an a.d. or an extras-wrangler on the set who could yell some encouragement to these lumps of flesh. It reminded me of the haven't-got-a-clue black island studs Joe non-directed in his XXX '70s movies.
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