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 released before 1988 were rated retroactively when the rating system was introduced.
- The Golden Lotus (1974)
- Love Swindlers (1976)
- Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980)
- Devil Fetus (1983)
- Seeding of a Ghost (1983)
- Possessed (1983)
- Possessed II (1984)
- The Rape After (1984)
- Hong Kong Godfather (1985)
- The Seventh Curse (1986)
1988–1999
This period is generally considered as the one when most Category III Hong Kong exploitation films were produced.
- Men Behind the Sun (1988)
- Her Vengeance (1988)
- School on Fire (1988)
- Gunmen (1988)
- Bloody Brotherhood (1989)[1]
- Triads: The Inside Story (1989)
- Runaway Blues (1989)
- An Eye for an Eye (1990)
- Erotic Ghost Story (1990)
- Queen of Temple Street (1990)[2]
- The Blue Jean Monster (1991)[3]
- Fist of Fury 1991 (1991)
- Sex and Zen (1991)
- Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
- Robotrix (1991)
- Dr. Lamb (1992)
- My Wife's Lover (1992)
- Naked Killer (1992)
- Perfect Exchange (1993)
- My Better Half (1993)
- Love to Kill (1993)[4]
- Crazy Love (1993) aka. The Fruit Is Ripe 1[5]
- Crime Story (1993)
- Daughter of Darkness (1993)[6]
- Run and Kill (1993)
- The Untold Story (1993)
- Retribution Sight Unseen (1993)[7] aka. Three Days of a Blind Girl
- Raped by an Angel (1993)[8] Note that Raped by an Angel 2[9][10] and 5 are rated as Category IIB.
- Taxi Hunter (1993)[11]
- Women on the Run (1993)
- The Tragic Fantasy - Tiger of Wanchai (1994)
- Fatal Encounter (1994)
- Beauty Evil Rose (1994) aka. The Beauty's Evil Roses[12]
- The Underground Banker (1994)[13]
- Daughter of Darkness 2 (1994)[14]
- A Day Without Policemen (1994)[15]
- Brother of Darkness (1994)[16]
- A Chinese Torture Chamber Story (1994)[17]
- Dream Lovers (1994)
- Red to Kill (1994)[18]
- Eternal Evil of Asia (1995)
- Sex and Zen II (1996)
- Viva Erotica (1996)[19]
- Ebola Syndrome (1996)
- The Fruit Is Swelling (1997) aka. The Fruit Is Ripe 2[20]
- Happy Together (1997)
- Intruder (1997)
- Nude Fear (1998)
- Young and Dangerous: The Prequel (1998)
- Sex and Zen III (1998)
- The Untold Story 2 (1998)
- Raped by an Angel 3: Sexual Fantasy of the Chief Executive (1998)[21]
- A Chinese Torture Chamber Story 2 (1998)[22]
- The Fruit Is Ripe 3 (1999)[23]
- Iron Sister (1999)[24]
- A Lamb in Despair (1999)[25]
- Raped by an Angel 4: The Raper's Union (1999)[26]
2000–15
- Spacked Out (2000)[27]
- There Is a Secret in My Soup (2001)
- Human Pork Chop (2001),[28]
- 3 Extremes II (2002)
- Fu Bo (2003)
- Sexy Soccer (2003)[29]
- Three... Extremes (2004)
- Ab-normal Beauty (2004)
- Dumplings (2004)
- Election (2005)[30]
- SPL: Sha Po Lang (2005)
- Election 2 (2006)[31]
- Dog Bite Dog (2006)
- Exiled (2006)[nb 1]
- The Heavenly Kings (2006; rated for explicit profanity)
- Whispers and Moans (2007),[32] directed by Herman Yau
- Lust, Caution (2007)
- Mad Detective (2007)
- Gong Tau: An Oriental Black Magic (2007)
- Fatal Move (2008)
- Hong Kong Bronx (2008)[33]
- Besieged City (2008)[34]
- The Forbidden Legend Sex & Chopsticks (2008)
- The Unbelievable (2009)
- A Very Short Life (2009)
- Shinjuku Incident (2009)
- Dream Home (2010)
- Revenge: A Love Story (2010)
- Love in a Puff (2010; rated for positive portrayal of smoking)[35]
- 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (2011)
- The 33D Invader (2011)
- Vulgaria (2012)
- Tales from the Dark 1 (2013)
- Tales from the Dark 2 (2013)
- 3D Naked Ambition (2014)
- The Gigolo (2015)
- The Gigolo 2 (2015)
See also
- Cinema of Hong Kong. See "Category III films" section.
- List of NC-17 rated films
Notes
References
- Hong Kong Cinemagic: Bloody Brotherhood
- HK cinemagic Queen of Temple Street
- IMDB "Blue Jean Monster" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- HK cinemagic: Love to Kill
- HK cinemagic: Crazy Love
- HK cinemagic: Daughter of Darkness
- IMDB "Retribution Sight Unseen" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- IMDB "Raped by An Angel" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- HK cinemagic: Raped by an Angel 2
- lovehkfilm: Raped by an Angel 2
- HK cinemagic: Taxi Hunter
- IMDB "Beautys Evil Rose" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- HK cinemagic: The Underground Banker
- HK cinemagic: Daughter of Darkness 2
- IMDB "A Day Without Policemen" 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 "Red to Kill" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- HK cinemagic: Viva Erotica
- HK cinemagic The Fruit is Swelling
- IMDB "Raped by an Angel 3: Sexual Fantasy of the Chief Executive" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- IMDB "A Chinese Torture Chamber Story 2" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- HK cinemagic: The Fruit is Ripe 3
- HK cinemagic: Iron Sister
- IMDB "A Lamb in Despair" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- IMDB "Raped by An Angel 4" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- HK cinemagic: Spacked Out
- HK cinemagic: Human Pork Chop
- HK cinemagic: Sexy Soccer
- HK cinemagic: Election
- HK cinemagic: Election 2
- HK cinemagic: Whispers and Moans
- HK cinemage: Hong Kong Bronx
- HK cinemagic Besieged City
- HK cinemagic Love in a Puff
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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