Book reveals how late film siren Ti Na was duped into that scene

Late film legend Tina Leung Kwok-hing has revealed in a book on sale today how she was duped into appearing naked in a notorious movie scene that she later regretted.

The autobiography, Movies - My Absurdity, on sale just over a week after Leung died, says director Li Han-hsiang had led Leung to believe the scene in The Warlord would show her naked back only to the waist. But he had secretly placed another camera that showed her full-length.

'How could this so-called maestro director stoop so low to ... pander to the audience?' asks Leung, who died of organ failure aged 65.

The actress-turned-entrepreneur widely known as Ti Na is said to have worked on the book, her fourth, almost to her last breath.

Published by Blue Sky Publishing, the book is sprinkled with poetic couplets and literary sayings, displaying a frank and no-holds-barred style throughout.

Of the nude portrayal that etched her in the public mind as a sex siren, Leung said she did not know the late director's intention until he had finished shooting the scene, a simmering assignation between the warlord's fourth wife and her lover.

'When the director shouted 'cut' and the light was switched off, I thought the scene was over,' Leung writes. 'But Li came to the resting room. His trademark smiling face was gone. Narrowing his eyes to slits and puckering up his lips to reveal an enigmatic smile, he asked me whether he could discuss the scene.