How come Hong Kong never developed strong domestic porn industry and in turn exportation market for XXX movies the way Japan did?

[Darth Jupiter]

I been wondering about this considering the island's reputation for capitalism and as a prostitution hub esp in tandem with its strong film industry famed for exporting martial arts movies to the rest of the world.........

Why didn't Hong Kong develop a strong adult video market and other XXX goods the way Japan did? Especially as an export market (which Japan is known to be the largest in Asia for porno movies)?

 

[tvstrip]

Because China has always had a huge influence over them? They are notoriously strict regarding anything sexual in media.

 

[John_8581]

Many Chinese and Asian girls from Hong Kong and Taiwan go over to Japan and do porn. However, these girls can never be Japanese AV Idols because of the Caste system that exists in Japanese society.

 

[Steve-FreeOnes]

I been wondering about this considering the island's reputation for capitalism and as a prostitution hub esp in tandem with its strong film industry famed for exporting martial arts movies to the rest of the world.........

Hong Kong cornered a market in martial arts films for two big reasons:-

1) Because there wasn't really a martial arts scene in nearby countries. Japan mostly made samurai films and societal dramas, and Korea mostly the latter.

2) The Bruce Lee effect. He was that big a star that the entire genre grew off his back, and was carried on by the Shaw Brothers and Jackie Chan.

As John said, many adult performers went to Japan. Japanese porn was popular on the Hong Kong black market, a market it couldn't compete with.

 

[tvstrip]

It's too bad that China didn't embrace the market like Brazil did. They could have really changed the porn industry.
Even today, I'm finding that most Chinese porn is "amateur", and performers are either wearing masks or have their faces censored.