Crazy Sex

1976
February 27, 2019

Shaw Brothers super director Li Han-Hsiang was particularly masterful in two genres: erotica and classic Chinese tales. He combined these two loves in this two-part examination of lust. The first story is a more modern tale of sex, lies, and videotape. The second features an elderly jeweler’s adventures with his unsatisfied wife, a handsome neighbor, and the neighborhood bordello.

The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire

1991
November 15, 2018

A corrupt local official, Xi Men Qing, who lusts after women and money, pursues his brother’s young wife, Lee Ping Er. Ping finds Men attractive, and under her drunken husband’s nose, she and Men work their way through the illustrations of a pillow book, the “Golden Lotus.” Men pursue the same feat with his fourth concubine, Pan Jing Lien, who lives in the compound next to Ping. Jing’s jealousy compounds a tale of humiliation, childbirth, […]

That’s Adultery!

1975
August 4, 2018

Renowned director Li Han-hsiang writes and directs the anthology film of four sexy, salacious and scandalous stories. There’s a general’s sedan-chair bearer who dallies with each of the soldier’s four wives until he suffers the fate of Samson, a Japanese pot maker who molds his wife’s lover, a courtesan who fools her drunken husband, and a scissors shop owner’s wife who has too many lovers to cut. It is four helpings of lascivious, lewd and […]

All of a Sudden

1996
May 18, 2018

The film opens with a naked woman plunging to her death off of a high-rise — a seeming suicide. Her husband Tsui Chin-tung (Simon Yam) is unconvinced and sets out to seek vengeance against sleazy businessman Lam Kwok-chui (Alfred Cheung) with whom his wife was having an affair with. Though only planning to beat the guy up, he ends up abducting his beautiful wife Ho-yee (Wan) along with his kid. When his crime threatens to […]