How can Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan be categorised? Is it a wuxia film? Is it a mystery? A women's film? A romance? A lesbian love story? Or a drama laced with sexual titillation? Is it genre-blending? Or simply unique? A detective (Elliot Yueh Hua) is drawn into a series of murders. The victims are rich men, all of them somehow connected to a beautiful and mysterious courtesan named Ai Nu (Lily Ho), the film's Chinese title, which literally translates as 'Love Slave'. Probing into the case, the detective finds himself drawn into a lurid love triangle, a deadly game of intrigue played out between himself, Ai Nu, and the powerful and ruthless madamé (Betty Pei Ti) of an upscale bordello...A romantic wuxia women's picture laced with mystery and sexual titillation, this is a breakthrough film in more ways than one!

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# Post-screening talk with director Ann Hui; Moderator: Joyce Yang

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