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
Wu Tang Collection: Brother of Darkness (1994) - Rare Hong Kong action epic! Another brilliant cast movie, from Director Billy Tang. This movie is based on a true story of a murder between two brothers. Was it an act of cold blooded murder...
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) a.k.a. Blood Lizard
- Seeding of a Ghost (1983)
- The Beasts (1980)
- The Rape After (1986)
- The Seventh Curse (1986)
1988â€"99 films
This period is generally considered as the one when most Category III Hong Kong exploitation films were produced.
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)
- Dog Bite Dog (2006)
- Election (2005).
- Election 2 (2006)
- 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)
- Human Pork Chop (2001),
- Love in a Puff (2010), 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)
- Shinjuku Incident (2009)
- Spacked Out (2000)
- 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), directed by Herman Yau
- Young and Dangerous Reloaded (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
References
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