In 1995, the ratings were amended, creating three levels of main ratings, and two sub-ratings for one level. The ratings were previously issued by the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority (TELA), and initially provided three levels of ratings, which led the slang term "three-tier ratings" (Chinese: 三級制) to popular usage. The purpose behind the law was to provide parents of minors a chance to prevent their children from being exposed to inappropriate materials, as well as to allow people to watch movies with content aimed towards adults. HK CAT III MOVIE MOVIEAs a result, the Hong Kong motion picture rating system was established under the Movie Screening Ordinance Cap.392 on 10 November 1988. In 1986, with the release of John Woo's violent gangster movie A Better Tomorrow (later rated IIB), the general public became concerned about the influence films had on children. For instance, movie characters were not allowed to get away with crimes, and sex scenes were not permitted. We augment and enhance our selection of nine Category III films such as Naked Killer, Taxi Hunter and Sex and Zen with nine "Hors Catégorie" curios such as Encounter of the Spooky Kind, Zen Kwan Do Strikes in Paris and The Wicked City, adding up to an unforgettable feast of cinema at its most extreme, inventive and and intoxicating.At the beginning of the film industry in Hong Kong, when the viewing of movies had no age restrictions, films were made under strict guidelines. Far from scaring people off, the Category III rating came to be regarded as a guarantee of transgressive elements in the Hong Kong films that flooded cinemas across Asia, while remaining below the radar of most Western audiences. Although Category III, introduced in 1988, is not a genre in itself, these shocking and sensational films had one characteristic in common: they defied good taste and conventional morality with their depictions of explicit sex and graphic violence. We pay special attention to exploitation films that were awarded the Category III classification. Under the heading "Hors Catégorie", we focus on Hong Kong cinema outside the mainstream, with a selection of 18 unconventional, extraordinary, pioneering and even demented genre offerings attesting to a vibrant, audacious and visceral film culture. Although it had its roots in traditional genres aimed at mass audiences, it also found room for experimentation, innovation and boundary-pushing, as much in terms of form and technique as in themes and genre tropes. Hong Kong played a key role in the spread of Asian cinema to the West, first in the 1970s with the martial arts productions of famous studios such as Shaw Brothers, followed in the 1980s and 1990s by the action, fantasy and horror films of John Woo, Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam.īut alongside the box-office successes, Hong Kong cinema maintained a remarkable level of creativity. At its peak in the early 1990s, the local film industry was second only to that of the United States as the world's biggest in terms of output per capita and as the largest exporter of product. There was a time when Hong Kong was the Hollywood of the East.
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