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Just wondering, because I can’t find anything…

There is, to my knowledge, only one book on Category III cinema and it’s in French and long out-of-print (so is going for quite a bit over the RRP which was €55 to start with, I may try an interlibrary loan at some point):...

The human faces of the Category III film were often female. Actresses’ bodies and expressions were used not only on official—and therefore government-approved—advertising but also regularly featured in the mainland Chinese tabloid papers, in detailed lists of Category III movie highlights, right down to VCD time codes....

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Riki-Oh, a young man who has superhuman strength, is incarcerated in a private prison, where inmates are treated like slaves. He is forced to use his unstoppable form of martial arts to destroy the corrupt officials and their lackeys....

If you want to put the Category III on your clothing you can have a few options at Redbubble:...

Someone messaged the author of the list the link below that might be more comprehensive....

A gang of unhappily subtitled detectives follow a trail of pilfered pituitary glands across Hong Kong, uncovering a coterie of black market habitues with equally desperate claims to illicitly harvested human growth hormones....

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The 1990s were a notorious period in the history Hong Kong cinema. By turns gory sexualised, violent and just plain outrageous, Category III films quickly gained a reputation as cult films. As often in extreme exploitation movies, these films challenged a whole range of societal norms and French critic Julien Sévéon will...

A near retired inspector and his unit are willing to put down a crime boss at all costs while dealing with his replacement, who is getting in their way. Meanwhile, the crime boss sends his top henchmen to put an end to their dirty schemes....

A cop turns into a monster after being gunned down and electrocuted in a Triad shootout....

From 1988-1999, Category III titles made up 38-48% of theatrically released Hong Kong productions. (1) In 1992, Category III movies like Dr. Lamb and Naked Killer grossed a total of $159 million HKD ($43.8 million USD, after adjusting for inflation); in 1993, movies like Daughter of Darkness and Run and Kill added $185 million...

When rotted human remains wash up on a beach, the police are dispatched to investigate. Their searching leads them to the Eight Immortals Restaurant, with it’s local proprietor Wong Chi Hang is the man behind it. But it seems Wong has ownership of the restaurant without proof, which leads one cop, above all his bumbling peers,...

An evil wizard uses his powers to make women vomit live centipedes to eat them....

from this, some of the gnarliest horror movies ever made came from this system, and some were so abhorrent they were retroactively added to Category III. So today we’re going to take a look at twelve very memorable Category III Hong Kong horror movies.

A good introductory article.

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