''Intimate Confessions Of A Chinese Courtesan'' () is a 1972 Hong Kong film directed by

Chor Yuen Chor Yuen (), born Cheung Po-kin (; 8 October 1934 – 21 February 2022), was a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, and actor. Chor is credited with over 120 films as director, over 70 films as a writer and over 40 films as an actor. Early ...

and starring Lily Ho.

Plot

As a Shaw Brothers classics, sweet young Ai Nu is abducted and sold to the popular Four Seasons

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run by lusty

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Chun Yi. AiNu's fiery attitude gets her locked away in a dungeon. In one scene, after whipping a defiant AiNu, lesbian Madam Chun proceeds to lick the open wounds on the girl's back. Chun Yi falls for Ai Nu nubile charge and entrusts her with a number of

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secrets like "Ghost Hands," which allows a fighter to plunge into an opponent's chest. Soon murder erupts within the brothel, and a policeman must race against time to prevent a vicious revenge plot from reaching its blood-spattered conclusion.

Cast

* Lily Ho as Ai Nu *

Betty Pei Ti Betty Pei Ti (; born 10 November 1951) is a Taiwanese actress. Though born in Taiwan, she is best known for her roles in Hong Kong films, particularly of the Shaw Brothers Studio. Early life Pei was born Han Pai-chou (韩白绸) in Yilan City, ...

as Chun Yi *

Yueh Hua Yueh Hua (; 14 July 1942 – 20 October 2018) was a Shanghai-born Hong Kong actor, later based in Canada, with Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB. Yueh is one of the most versatile and prolific leading actors of Shaw Brothers. Yueh starred in five ...

as Chi Te * Kong Ling - Prostitute * Chan Lap-Ban - Lao Yao Gui (hooker trainer) * Hung Ling-Ling - Prostitute * Chan Mei-Hua - Ainu's maid * Yuan Man-Tzu - Ainu's maid *

Michelle Yim Michelle Yim Wai-ling (; born September 2, 1955), better known by her stage name ''Mai Suet'' (), is a Hong Kong actress and elder sister of former actress Sidney Yim Wai-ming also known by stage name ''Suet Lei'' (). She graduated from St. Rose ...

- Ainu's maid

Release

The film was distributed theatrically in Hong Kong on 9 July 1972. The film grossed a total of $1,108,437

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s domestically. The film was a box office hit in Hong Kong. The film was remade by Shaw Brothers Studios in 1984 as ''Lust for Love of a Chinese Courtesan''.

Reception

From a contemporary reviews, Tony Rayns reviewed an 83-minute dubbed language version of the film in the ''

Monthly Film Bulletin ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 to April 1991, when it merged with ''Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those with a ...

''. Rayns noted the editing done on the film which removed "all its sex and some of its violence by the British censor, its programme-filler origins are still amply evident in its routine caricatures, the all too regular climaxes, the fatuous dubbed dialogue and the patchwork music track." Rayns concluded that the result was like an "extended gloss on the moment in '' Scarlet Empress'' when Dietrich both trumps and dismisses weaponry with a twist of her veil. ''Intimate Confessions'' lacks he compression and resonance of Sternberg, but it is none the less a genuine Z-movie equivalent."

References

External links

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''Intimate Confessions Of A Chinese Courtesan'' at Hong Kong Cinemagic
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