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 films were produced.

1988

• Men Behind the Sun (1988)
• Her Vengeance (1988)
• School on Fire (1988)
• Gunmen (1988)

1989

• Bloody Brotherhood (1989) ^[1]
• Triads: The Inside Story (1989)
• Runaway Blues (1989)
• Sentenced to Hang (1989)

1990

• Bullet in the Head (1990) ^[2]
• An Eye for an Eye (1990)
• Erotic Ghost Story (1990)
• Queen of Temple Street (1990) ^[3]
• Triad Story (1990)

1991

• Oriental Harem (1991)
• Fist of Fury 1991 (1991)
• Sex and Zen (1991)
• The Holy Virgin Versus the Evil Dead (1991)
• Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
• Robotrix (1991)
• Lethal Panther (1991)

1992

• Dr. Lamb (1992)
• My Wife's Lover (1992)
• Naked Killer (1992)

1993

• 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.
• Women on the Run (1993)

1994

• Beauty Evil Rose (1994) aka. The Beauty's Evil Roses ^[11]
• Daughter of Darkness 2 (1994) ^[12]
• A Day Without Policemen (1994) ^[13]
• Dream Lovers (1994)
• Brother of Darkness (1994) ^[14]
• A Chinese Torture Chamber Story (1994) ^[15]
• Fatal Encounter (1994)
• Red to Kill (1994) ^[16]
• The Tragic Fantasy - Tiger of Wanchai (1994)
• Twenty Something (1994)
• The Underground Banker (1994) ^[17]

1995

• Eternal Evil of Asia (1995)
• Trilogy of Lust (1995)

1996

• Horrible High Heels (1996)
• Sex and Zen II (1996)
• Naked Assassins (1996)
• Viva Erotica (1996) ^[18]
• Ebola Syndrome (1996)

1997

• The Fruit Is Swelling (1997) aka. The Fruit Is Ripe 2 ^[19]
• Happy Together (1997)
• Intruder (1997)

1998

• 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) ^[20]
• A Chinese Torture Chamber Story 2 (1998) ^[21]

1999

• The Fruit Is Ripe 3 (1999) ^[22]
• Erotic Nightmare (1999)
• Iron Sister (1999) ^[23]
• A Lamb in Despair (1999) ^[24]
• Raped by an Angel 4: The Raper's Union (1999) ^[25]

2000–15

• Spacked Out (2000) ^[26]
• There Is a Secret in My Soup (2001)
• Human Pork Chop (2001) ^[27]
• 3 Extremes II (2002)
• Fu Bo (2003)
• Sexy Soccer (2003) ^[28]
• Three... Extremes (2004)
• Ab-normal Beauty (2004)
• Dumplings (2004)
• Election (2005) ^[29]
• SPL: Sha Po Lang (2005)
• Election 2 (2006) ^[30]
• Dog Bite Dog (2006)
• Exiled (2006) ^{[nb 1]}
• The Heavenly Kings (2006; rated for explicit profanity)
• Whispers and Moans (2007), ^[31] directed by Herman Yau
• Lust, Caution (2007)
• Mad Detective (2007)
• Gong Tau: An Oriental Black Magic (2007)
• Fatal Move (2008)
• Hong Kong Bronx (2008) ^[32]
• Besieged City (2008) ^[33]
• The Forbidden Legend Sex & Chopsticks (2008)
  • The Forbidden Legend Sex & Chopsticks 2 (2009)
• 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) ^[34]
• 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (2011)
• The 33D Invader (2011)
• Vulgaria (2012)
• Due West: Our Sex Journey (2012)
  • Due West 2: Our Sex Vacation (2014) ^[35]
• Tales from the Dark 1 (2013)
  • Tales from the Dark 2 (2013)
• 3D Naked Ambition (2014)
• The Gigolo (2015)
  • The Gigolo 2 (2015)
  • The Gigolo 3 (2015)

2016- 2024

The Sparring Partner (2022)

The Moon Thieves (2024)

See also

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

Notes

1. 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.

References

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

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