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INTIMATE CONFESSIONS OF A CHINESE COURTESAN / AI NU Series: Shaw Brothers Classics [July 21 – 23 2006] Director: Chu Yuan, Country: Hong Kong, Release: 1972, Runtime: 86 When the wave of erotica began sweeping through international cinema in the late 60s and early 70s, the Shaws decided to explore the territory, albeit in a most unusual way. Lily Ho is an aristocratic maiden abducted and sold to the Four Seasons Brothel, where she quickly gets caught up in a web of sex, murder and intrigue. When released in 1972, the film shocked audiences, and even today continues to exert a kind of raw power. "Imagine relocating the martial arts school to a brothel, and transposing the martial arts master to the brothel’s madam and the martial arts disciple to a prostitute. Imagine also that the madam is a lesbian who abducts virgins to work in her brothel; that she both exploits and is genuinely in love with her protégée; and that the protégée only fakes subservience while secretly seeking bloody revenge.” — Cheng-Sim Lim, UCLA Film and Television Archive.

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