City on Fire (1987)

Chow Yun-fat plays Ko Chow, an undercover cop in a violent Hong Kong setting. He's tired of the work and wants to retire, but his superior, inspector Lau (Sun Yueh), wants one last job from him: infiltrate and help bring down a gang of jewellery thieves, one of whom killed a fellow cop.
Ko is, it must be said, a bit of an ass-hole who's difficult to sympathise with, despite much of the running time given over to characterisation. But he gets a little less unlikable as the story progresses.
The closing act is fantastic — it also happens to be the part that QT ripped off for Reservoir Dogs (1992) — but overall the film is too uneven for my tastes.

2½ bleeding heads out of 5

Naked Killer (1992)

A Category III from China that’s got an actual plot shoved between the tits and ass! A woman is trained to become an assassin but falls for the cop that’s investigating her. Trouble ensues; clothed and unclothed.
It’s also got some stylishly balletic action scenes that owe a lot to the cinematic style of John Woo (don’t they always?). It’s a violent affair but there are a lot of things underdeveloped that, had they been given more attention, would've made it a much better film. Nevertheless, it's certainly one of the more interesting and successful entries in the genre.

3 sausages and scissors out of 5

Sex and Zen (1991)

aka: Yu pu tuan zhi: Tou qing bao jian

One of China’s most famous Category III films is a weird experience. A scholar wants to hump his way through the female population, but only has a tiny mouse penis, so he replaces it with a horse penis (literally) and the remainder of the film documents his sexual exploits.
Perhaps I've gotten too old to appreciate shallow, soft-core, female nipple-rubbing, comedy-porn from Asia; that’s a depressing thought.

1 wrong way to play a flute out of 5