Lust, Caution
Director: Ang Lee
Genre: Thriller, Erotic thriller, Erotica, Spy, War, World cinema, Art film
Year: 2007
Country: United States of America, China, Taiwan, Republic of China
Language: Cantonese, Japanese Language, Shanghainese, English Language, Standard Mandarin
Starring: Lee-Hom Wang, Joan Chen, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Anupam Kher, Tang Wei
Lust, Caution (Chinese: 色，戒; pinyin: Sè, Jiè) is a 2007 Chinese espionage thriller film directed by Taiwanese American director Ang Lee, based on the short story of the same name published in 1979 by Chinese author Eileen Chang. The story is mostly set in Hong Kong in 1938 and in Shanghai in 1942, when it was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army and ruled by the puppet government led by Wang Jingwei. It depicts a group of Chinese university students from the Lingnan University who plot to assassinate a high-ranking special agent and recruiter of the puppet government using an attractive young woman to lure him into a trap.
With this film Lee won for the second time the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. The film adaptation and the story are loosely based on events that took place during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. The film's explicit sex scenes resulted in the film being rated NC-17 in the United States.
In the Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the 1940s, a well-dressed, attractive young Chinese woman named "Mrs. Mak" (Tang Wei) is sitting in a café in a posh neighbourhood. When she makes a call to a man, her seemingly innocuous dialogues are coded signals that
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