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.

• Confession of a Concubine (1976)
• Centipede Horror (1984)
• Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980)
• Devil Fetus (1983)
• Lewd Lizard (1979) aka Blood Lizard
• Seeding of a Ghost (1983)
• The Beasts (1980)
• The Rape After (1986)
• The Seventh Curse (1986)

1988–99 films

This period is generally considered as the one when most Category III Hong Kong exploitation films were produced.

• A Chinese Torture Chamber Story (1994)^[1]
• A Chinese Torture Chamber Story 2 (1998)^[2]
• A Day Without Policemen (1994)^[3]
• A Lamb in Despair (1999)^[4]
• A Sudden Love (1995)
• A Wild Party (1993)
• Beauty Evil Rose (1994) aka The Beauty's Evil Roses^[5]
• Basic Impulse (1992)
• Bloody Brotherhood (1989)^[6]
• The Blue Jean Monster (1991)^[7]
• Brother of Darkness (1994)^[8]
• Crazy Love (1993) aka. The Fruit is Ripe 1^[9]
• Crime Story (1993)
• Daughter of Darkness (1993)^[10]
• Daughter of Darkness 2 (1994)^[11]
• 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)
• Gunmen (1988)
• Happy Together (1997), directed by Wong Kar-wai
• Her Vengeance (1988)
• Hong Kong Gigolo (1990)
• Horrible High Heels (1996)
• Invincible (1992)
• Iron Sister (1999),^[12] starring Shu Qi
• Love to Kill (1993)^[13]
• Men Behind the Sun (1988)
• Men Behind the Sun 2 (1992) aka 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)
• Peeping Tom (1997)
• Perfect Exchange (1993)
• Pretty Woman (1991)
• Prostitute (1992)
• Queen of Temple Street (1990)^[14]
• Rape in Public Sea (1993)
• Raped by an Angel (1993) ^[15] Note that Raped by an Angel 2^[16][17] and 5 are rated as Category IIB.
• Raped by an Angel 3: Sexual Fantasy of the Chief Executive (1998) ^[18]
• Raped by an Angel 4: The Raper's Union (1999) ^[19]
• Red to Kill (1994)^[20]
• Retribution Sight Unseen (1993)^[21] aka 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)
• Taxi Hunter (1993)^[22]
• The Fruit is Ripe 3 (1999)^[23]
• The Fruit is Swelling (1997) aka. The Fruit is Ripe 2^[24]
• The Intruder (1997)
• The Other Side Of Dolls (1993)
• The Peeping Tom (1997)
• The Tragic Fantasy - Tiger of Wanchai (1994)
• The Underground Banker (1994)^[25]
• Trilogy of Lust 2 (1996) aka Portrait of a Serial Killer
• 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)
• Triads: The Inside Story (1989)
• Viva Erotica (1996).^[26] Nominated for Best Film at the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards.
• 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 Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (2011)
• A Very Short Life (2009)
• 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) One scene shows Simon Yam's character shaking hands with another gangster with their left hands turned around, making a triads agreement handshake. The scene is present on the Mega-Star uncut Limited Edition DVD. However, only the Category IIB cut version was released in Hong Kong theatrically.
• Fatal Move (2008)
• Fu Bo (2003)
• 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)
• 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)
• The Peeping (2002)
• The Unbelievable (2009)
• There is a Secret in my Soup (2001)
• Three... Extremes (2004)
• Vulgaria (2012)
• Whispers and Moans (2007),^[35] directed by Herman Yau
• Young and Dangerous Reloaded (2013)
• 3D Naked Ambition (2014)
• The Gigolo (2015)

See also

• Cinema of Hong Kong. See "Category III films" section.
• List of NC-17 rated films

References

1. IMDB "A Chinese Torture Chamber Story" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
2. IMDB "A Chinese Torture Chamber Story 2" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
3. IMDB "A Day Without Policemen" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
4. IMDB "A Lamb in Despair" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
5. IMDB "Beautys Evil Rose" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
6. Hong Kong Cinemagic: Bloody Brotherhood
7. IMDB "Blue Jean Monster" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
8. IMDB "Brother of Darkness" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
9. HK cinemagic: Crazy Love
10. HK cinemagic: Daughter of Darkness
11. HK cinemagic: Daughter of Darkness 2
12. HK cinemagic: Iron Sister
13. HK cinemagic: Love to Kill
14. HK cinemagic Queen of Temple Street
15. IMDB "Raped by An Angel" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
16. HK cinemagic: Raped by an Angel 2
17. lovehkfilm: Raped by an Angel 2
18. IMDB "Raped by an Angel 3: Sexual Fantasy of the Chief Executive" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
19. IMDB "Raped by An Angel 4" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
20. IMDB "Red to Kill" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
21. IMDB "Retribution Sight Unseen" Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
22. HK cinemagic: Taxi Hunter
23. HK cinemagic: The Fruit is Ripe 3
24. HK cinemagic The Fruit is Swelling
25. HK cinemagic: The Underground Banker
26. HK cinemagic: Viva Erotica
27. HK cinemagic Besieged City
28. HK cinemagic: Election
29. HK cinemagic: Election 2
30. HK cinemage: Hong Kong Bronx
31. HK cinemagic: Human Pork Chop
32. HK cinemagic Love in a Puff
33. HK cinemagic: Sexy Soccer
34. HK cinemagic: Spacked Out
35. 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