- Lust, Caution
- Opened September 28, 2007 | Runtime:2 hr. 38 min.
NC-17
some explicit sexuality
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The World War II Japanese occupation of Shanghai in 1942 continues in force. Mrs. Mak walks into a café, places a call, and then sits and waits. She remembers how her story began in 1938 China. She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei). With WWII underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min (Wang Leehom). He convenes a core group of students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung). Each student has a part to play; Wong will be Mrs. Mak, who will gain Yee’s trust by befriending his wife and then draw the man into an affair. An unexpected fatal twist spurs her to flee. Shanghai, 1941. Kuang re-enters her life. Now part of the organized resistance, he enlists her to again become Mrs. Mak in a revival of the plot to kill Yee.Read More
- Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Wang Lee Hom
- Director: Ang Lee
- Genres: Period Film, Erotic Drama, Unglamorized Spy Film, Thriller
Critic Reviews
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"Ang Lee has made a film of ambition and accomplishment, a summation of all he knows..."
Los Angeles Times
- Kenneth Turan
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"One longs to be more deeply involved in the tale, given the exquisite beauty of the film and the painstaking attention to detail in period accuracy..."
USA Today
- Claudia Puig
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"...lacks the deep-churning emotional currents that drove Lee's Brokeback Mountain and his best works."
Variety
- Derek Elley
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