Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan

Intimate Confessions Of A Chinese Courtesan (Chinese: 愛奴; pinyin: Ai Nu) is a 1972 Hong Kong film directed by Chor Yuen and starring Lily Ho.

Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
Directed byChor Yuen
Produced byRun Run Shaw[1]
Screenplay byChiu Kang-chien[2]
Starring
Music byChou Fu-liang[2]
CinematographyJohn Chu[2]
Edited by
  • Hsing-lung Chiang
  • Yen Hai Li[2]
Production
company
Release date
  • 9 July 1972 (1972-07-09) (Hong Kong)
Running time
91 minutes[1]
CountryHong Kong[1]

Plot

In what is regarded as one of the most outrageous and taboo-smashing Shaw Brothers classics, sweet young Ai Nu is abducted and sold to the popular Four Seasons brothel run by lusty madam Chun Yi, who falls for her nubile charge and entrusts her with a number of martial arts 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 [3]
  • Betty Pei Ti as Chun Yi
  • Yueh Hua 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 - Ainu's maid

Release

The film was distributed theatrically in Hong Kong on 9 July 1972.[2] The film grossed a total of $1,108,437 Hong Kong dollars domestically.[2] The film was a box office hit in Hong Kong.[4] The film was remade by Shaw Brothers Studios in 1984 as Lust for Love of a Chinese Courtesan.[4]

Reception

From a contemporary reviews, Tony Rayns reviewed an 83-minute dubbed language version of the film in the Monthly Film Bulletin.[1] 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."[1] 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."[1]

References
  1. Rayns, Tony (November 1973). "Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 40 no. 478. British Film Institute. p. 228.
  2. "Hong Kong Film Archive [Search for "愛奴"]". Hong Kong Film Archive. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  3. Mok, Laramie (4 September 2018). "4 big screen beauties from the golden age of Shaw Brothers films". scmp.com. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  4. Chiang, Howard; Heinrich, Ari Larissa (2013). Queer Sinophone Cultures. Routledge. p. 8. ISBN 1135069786.


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