Episode 128: Hellbent for Hong Kong: CAT III films with Ryan Smith- PART ONE

The UK created the Video Nasties list. 

The MPAA created NC-17. 

And Hong Kong had CATEGORY III films.

It is probably the least widely known classification of outrageous, transgressive, explicit, and violent films. From 1988 to the British Handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, the government tried to tame a group of wild and unpredictable filmmakers. 

Instead of killing business, the new rating created a thriving industry for extremely popular and extremely unhinged movies!

Join my guest Ryan Smith of legendary Dreamhaven Books in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of the premiere experts on CAT III films, for this two-part dive into the heavy hitters of CAT III!

I hope you enjoy the show!

Movies Discussed:

Men Behind the Sun (1988)

The Untold Story (1993)

Taxi Hunter (1993)

Ebola Syndrome (1996)

Dr. Lamb (1992)

Run and Kill (1993)

Red to Kill (1994)