Lust, Caution
Director: Ang Lee
Genre: Thriller, Erotic thriller, Erotica, Spy, War film, World cinema, Art film, Romance Film, Period piece, Erotic Drama, Drama
Year: 2007
Country: United States of America, China, Republic of China (Taiwan), Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese, Japanese Language, Shanghainese, English Language, Standard Mandarin, Hindi Language
Starring: Lee-Hom Wang, Joan Chen, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Anupam Kher, Tang Wei, Yan Su, Tou Chung-hua, Chih-ying Chu, Ying-hsien Kao, Johnson Yuen, Lawrence Ko, Ruhui Song, He Saifei, Jie Liu, Chin Ka Lok, Tang Wei, Johnson Yuen
Lust, Caution is an 2007 espionage thriller film directed by Ang Lee, based on the novella of the same name published in 1950 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 first being with Brokeback Mountain. 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 1940s Japanese-occupied Shanghai, a well-dressed, attractive young Chinese woman, "Mrs. Mai", is sitting in a café in a posh neighborhood. When she makes a call to a man, her seemingly innocuous dialogues are coded signals that prompts a cell of young resistance agents to load
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