Twenty minutes to understand why Hong Kong cinema went absolutely feral in the 80s.
Editing
Rapid-fire montages that match the chaos they describe.
Production
Impossibly dense archival footage hunting.
Director
Naomi Holwill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Category III was created in 1988 specifically to contain this wave—making it the only rating system that arguably promoted the content it was meant to police.
The documentary's 20-minute runtime mirrors the frantic, disposable energy of the films themselves—Holwill knows her subject infects the form.
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