The Eternal Evil Of Asia (Man Kei Chin, 1995)Ī group of four men headed by Bon and Kong travel to Thailand to indulge themselves in sexual tourism, with the sole exception of Bon, who is engaged to Kong’s sister May.
In that fashion, “Untold Story” is another film that stresses the incompetence and brutal methods of the Hong Kong police.Ħ. The film is brutally violent from beginning to end, since the horrid murders Wong commits are followed by the actual tortures he endures in prison, which continue even when he is transferred to the medical clinic. The police, headed by Officer Lee, eventually manage to arrest him and throw him into a cell with a relative of one of the victims, in order for him to beat a confession out of Wong.
Unfortunately for all the people working there, he kills the owners, takes over the establishment, and then starts to kill any employee he suspects of knowing the truth, in the most brutal way. In the beginning of the film, he is fleeing the police and ends up in Macau, where he takes a job at the Eight Immortals Restaurant. In a role that netted him his first Best Actor award at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards, Anthony Wong plays Wong Chi-hang, the aforementioned culprit. Lamb”, “Untold Story” is an equally notorious CAT III production. Having many similarities with “Ebola Syndrome” and based on an actual case of the “Eight Immortals Restaurant Murder”, like “Dr. Some extreme humor, titillation and a truly horrible ending give the film additional levels of cult. The film’s grotesqueness, however, derives not from the hideous crimes, which are not depicted so graphically, but from the tactics of the policemen, who go to brutal extremes in order to extract a confession, with their tactics including physical and psychological violence.
Eventually, Lamb loses it and starts confessing his crimes with horrifying details. However, when the police investigate his house, they discover a number of photos of murdered women. One day, he is arrested by cops as part of an investigation surrounding obscene photos. The film starts with a young boy being bullied by his stepmother, who later becomes the aforementioned taxi driver.
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One of the most notorious film, even among the CAT III films, “Dr Lamb” is based in the actual case of Lam Kor-wan, a taxi driver who would pick up female passengers, strangle them with electrical wire, take them to his family home, and dismember them. 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.8. 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. 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. 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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