Special Time and Location for this week only of October 28th, 8:00PM in Bolton B52
location information please see this link http://www4.uwm.edu/map/vt-cent.cfm Bolton is the building behind Lubar Hall on N. Maryland ave. The room is located in the basement and includes a theater style set up with a DVD projector.
In the late 1980's changes were made to the domestic Hong Kong film ratings system. This opened up the possibility of films dealing with more adult subject matter, under the highest content ratting, Category 3, generally abbreviated as CAT III. Film of this rating including those dealing with controversial subject matter, either sexual or political such as Wong Kar Wai’s Happy Together (1997.) 
But the majority of CAT III films focused upon either sex or violence, so much so that this began to generate its own subgenre or movement. During the heyday of CAT III films almost half of all Hong Kong productions fit into this type. As a genre, they revolve around two impulses, spectacle and novelty. With each new film attempting to outdo the last, this was a genre of ever increasing range of subject. 
The Untold Story is one of the famous of these films, helping to affirm the stardom of Anthony Wong, who plays a sadistic madman. The story is supposedly based upon events in Macao in the late 1960's. It deals with a murderer who flees from Hong Kong and then becomes involved in grisly events in a Macao restaurant. For his role Anthony Wong received the Hong Kong Film Award for best actor, a major accomplishment in the story of CAT III. A wave of copycat films and loose sequels followed. 
Hong Kong, Director Herman Yau, Cast Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Danny Lee Sau-Yin, Emily Kwan (Bo Wai), Lau Siu-Ming and Shing Fui-On, 95 minutes, in Cantonese with English subtitles
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