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...Appearing in adults-only Hong Kong movies was tougher for actresses, who might be quickly and permanently typecast once they had bared all, and for whom Cat III was not so much a calling card for stardom as a brand of shame. Yet Loletta Lee could go from teen cutie (in ?Shanghai Blues?) to sex-film siren (in the Cat III ?Sex and Zen II?) to a Best Actress citation from the Hong Kong Film Awards (for Ann Hui?s ?Ordinary Heroes?). And Hsu Chi, the Taiwanese lovely who had posed pink for photo books - and who made her Hong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Hong Kong Horrors! | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

...both of their sakes, she stripped. In Sex and Zen II she played an evil spirit who sucks the energy from her victims. In one notable scene she makes lesbian-then-macho love (with a strap-on appendage) to heroine Loletta Lee, a 29-year-old actress who had sexed her way through much of the same fare. She was instantly noticed: half demonic, half nymph-gazing-through-the-eyes-of-the-worldly-whore. Wong Jing, at that time Hong Kong's most successful filmmaker, proclaimed that Shu Qi would one day be famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shu Perstar! | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

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