List of Hong Kong Category III films
The following is a non-exhaustive list of Category III films produced in Hong Kong. According to the Hong Kong motion picture rating system introduced in 1988, the restriction applicable to Category III films is thus defined: "No persons younger than 18 years of age are permitted to rent, purchase, or watch this film in the cinema." This applies to films produced in Hong Kong or elsewhere.
The Category III rating is applicable to films produced anywhere. The list below contains only Category III films produced in Hong Kong.
Pre-1988 films
Films released before 1988 were rated retroactively when the rating system was introduced.
- The Beasts (1980)
- Confession of a Concubine (1976)
- Centipede Horror (1984)
- Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980)
- Devil Fetus (1983)
- Lewd Lizard (1979) a.k.a. Blood Lizard
- The Rape After (1986)
- Seeding of a Ghost (1983)
- The Seventh Curse (1986)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
1988–99 films
This period is generally considered as the one when most Category III Hong Kong exploitation films were produced.
- Beauty Evil Rose (1994) a.k.a. The Beauty's Evil Roses[1]
- Basic Impulse (1992)
- Bloody Brotherhood (1989)[2]
- The Blue Jean Monster (1991)[3]
- Brother of Darkness (1994)[4]
- A Chinese Torture Chamber Story (1994)[5]
- A Chinese Torture Chamber Story 2 (1998)[6]
- Crazy Love (1993) aka. The Fruit is Ripe 1[7]
- Crime Story (1993)
- Daughter of Darkness (1993)[8]
- Daughter of Darkness 2 (1994)[9]
- A Day Without Policemen (1994)[10]
- Diary of a Serial Killer (1995)
- Dr. Lamb (1992)
- Dream Lovers (1994)
- Ebola Syndrome (1996)
- Erotic Nightmare (1999)
- Eternal Evil of Asia (1995)
- Fatal Love (1993)
- Fatal Encounter (1994)
- Fist of Fury 1991 (1991)
- The Fruit is Ripe 3 (1999)[11]
- The Fruit is Swelling (1997) aka. The Fruit is Ripe 2[12]
- Gunmen (1988)
- Happy Together (1997), directed by Wong Kar-wai
- Her Vengeance (1988)
- Hong Kong Gigolo (1990)
- Horrible High Heels (1996)
- The Intruder (1997)
- Invincible (1992)
- Iron Sister (1999),[13] starring Shu Qi
- A Lamb in Despair (1999)[14]
- Love to Kill (1993)[15]
- Men Behind the Sun (1988)
- Men Behind the Sun 2 (1992) a.k.a. Maruta 2: Laboratory of the Devil
- My Better Half (1993)
- My Wife's Lover (1992)
- Naked Killer (1992), directed by Clarence Fok
- No Guilty (1992)
- Nude Fear (1998)
- Offense Storm (1993)
- The Other Side Of Dolls (1993)
- Peeping Tom (1997)
- Perfect Exchange (1993)
- Pretty Woman (1991)
- Prostitute (1992)
- Queen of Temple Street (1990)[16]
- Rape in Public Sea (1993)
- Raped by an Angel (1993)[17] Note that Raped by an Angel 2[18][19] and 5 are rated as Category IIB.
- Raped by an Angel 3: Sexual Fantasy of the Chief Executive (1998)[20]
- Raped by an Angel 4: The Raper's Union (1999)[21]
- Red to Kill (1994)[22]
- Retribution Sight Unseen (1993)[23] a.k.a. Three Days of a Blind Girl
- Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
- Robotrix (1991)
- Run and Kill (1993)
- Runaway Blues (1989)
- School on Fire (1988)
- Sex and Zen (1991)
- Sex and Zen II (1996)
- Sex and Zen III (1998)
- Suburb Murder (1992)
- A Sudden Love (1995)
- Taxi Hunter (1993)[24]
- The Tragic Fantasy - Tiger of Wanchai (1994)
- Trilogy of Lust 2 (1996) a.k.a. Portrait of a Serial Killer
- Triads: The Inside Story (1989)
- The Underground Banker (1994)[25]
- The Untold Story (1993). Anthony Wong won the Best Actor award at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards for his role in this film.
- The Untold Story 2 (1998)
- The Untold Story 3 (1999)
- Viva Erotica (1996).[26] Nominated for Best Film at the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards.
- A Wild Party (1993)
- Wai's Romance (1994)
- Water Tank Murder Mystery (1994)
- Women on the Run (1993), directed by David Lai and Corey Yuen
- Young and Dangerous: The Prequel (1998)
2000 and after
- 3 Extremes II (2002). The film contains 3 segments: from South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong
- 3D Naked Ambition (2014)
- 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (2011)
- Ab-normal Beauty (2004)
- Dumplings (2004)
- Besieged City (2008)[27]
- Dog Bite Dog (2006)
- Election (2005)[28]
- Election 2 (2006)[29]
- Emmanuelle in Hong Kong (2003)
- Exiled (2006)[nb 1]
- Fatal Move (2008)
- Fu Bo (2003)
- The Gigolo (2015)
- The Gigolo 2 (2015)
- Gong Tau: An Oriental Black Magic (2007)
- The Heavenly Kings (2006) Solely for excessive use of explicit languages
- Hong Kong Bronx (2008)[30]
- Human Pork Chop (2001),[31]
- Love in a Puff (2010),[32] Mainly due to the positive portraying of smoking as a central theme of the film.
- Lust, Caution (2007)
- Mad Detective (2007)
- Naked Poison (2000)
- Night Corridor (2003)
- The Peeping (2002)
- Prostitute Killers (2000)
- Revenge: A Love Story (2010)
- Runaway Pistol (2002)
- Sexy Soccer (2003)[33]
- Shinjuku Incident (2009)
- Spacked Out (2000)[34]
- SPL: Sha Po Lang (2005)
- Tales from the Dark 1 (2013)
- Tales from the Dark 2 (2013)
- There Is a Secret in my Soup (2001)
- Three... Extremes (2004)
- The Unbelievable (2009)
- A Very Short Life (2009)
- Vulgaria (2012)
- Whispers and Moans (2007),[35] directed by Herman Yau
- Young and Dangerous Reloaded (2013)
See also
- Cinema of Hong Kong. See "Category III films" section.
- List of NC-17 rated films
Notes
References
- ↑ IMDB "Beautys Evil Rose" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ↑ Hong Kong Cinemagic: Bloody Brotherhood
- ↑ IMDB "Blue Jean Monster" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ↑ IMDB "Brother of Darkness" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ↑ IMDB "A Chinese Torture Chamber Story" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ↑ IMDB "A Chinese Torture Chamber Story 2" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Crazy Love
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Daughter of Darkness
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Daughter of Darkness 2
- ↑ IMDB "A Day Without Policemen" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ↑ HK cinemagic: The Fruit is Ripe 3
- ↑ HK cinemagic The Fruit is Swelling
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Iron Sister
- ↑ IMDB "A Lamb in Despair" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Love to Kill
- ↑ HK cinemagic Queen of Temple Street
- ↑ IMDB "Raped by An Angel" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Raped by an Angel 2
- ↑ lovehkfilm: Raped by an Angel 2
- ↑ IMDB "Raped by an Angel 3: Sexual Fantasy of the Chief Executive" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ↑ IMDB "Raped by An Angel 4" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ↑ IMDB "Red to Kill" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ↑ IMDB "Retribution Sight Unseen" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Taxi Hunter
- ↑ HK cinemagic: The Underground Banker
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Viva Erotica
- ↑ HK cinemagic Besieged City
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Election
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Election 2
- ↑ HK cinemage: Hong Kong Bronx
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Human Pork Chop
- ↑ HK cinemagic Love in a Puff
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Sexy Soccer
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Spacked Out
- ↑ HK cinemagic: Whispers and Moans
External links
- Random Acts of Sensible Violence: Genre, Hong Kong Censorship, and the Brief Ascent of Category III
- Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority website: database search for films classified by the Film Censorship Authority since 2004
- HK cinemagic list of Hong Kong Category III films
- Categorize Me: A History of Hong Kong's Category III Genre
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