Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (English version)
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1h 30m
1972 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chor Yuen
The most famous erotic film in the history of Hong Kong cinema, Chor Yuen’s Intimate Confessions Of A Chinese Courtesan shocked Chinese audiences in 1972, and even today exerts a raw power. Lily Ho, in her most daring role, is an aristocratic maiden abducted and sold to the Four Seasons Brothel. Quickly becoming the brothel’s most desirable courtesan, she finds herself caught up in a web of sex, murder, and intrigue involving an official in the imperial court, and a neurotic courtesan who harbour’s an unrequited love. This is the English version.
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