![]() The conference, which will be held in English, will start with the documentary "Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema" by Calum Waddell, and will conclude with a panel discussion. We will also be joined by Dr Victor Fan (King’s College, London) who will turn his wide-ranging expertise on Chinese cinema and politics on to the crazy, bizarre and confrontational world of Category III. Examining films before and after the handover of Hong Kong to China, Dr Calum Waddell (University of Lincoln) will interrogate the ways in which these films seem to foreshadow the current political crisis in Hong Kong. This is the HK laser disk version hardware upscaled and colour corrected. from the Tai Seng Catalog CAT III movie with the king of 1990s CAT III Anthony Wong Chau-Sang. As often in extreme exploitation movies, these films challenged a whole range of societal norms and French critic Julien Sévéon will explore the taboo breaking quality of Category III films that has made them such a cultish draw for so many. Lily Chung portrays a misunderstood teenager sexually abused by her stepfather on a one-track road to murder and bloodshed. In turns gory sexualised, violent and just plain outrageous, Category III films quickly gained a reputation as cult films. The 1990s were a notorious period in the history Hong Kong cinema. ![]()
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