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.

2000–15

See also

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

Notes

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

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