Lust, Caution

157 Minutes | 2007 | Fiction | Shanghainese, Cantonese, Mandarin, English, Japanese, etc. | English Subtitles

Content Advisory: This film contains scenes of nudity, mature themes, sexual language, sexual content, coarse language, and tobacco use.

Frustrated by his failed attempts to assassinate Mr. Yee (Tony LEUNG Chiu-wai), an important official in the puppet government set up by the Japanese occupation, Old Wu now recruits KUANG Yumin (WANG Leehom), WONG Chia Chi (TANG Wei), and their troupe of drama students for yet another attempt. Chia Chi is chosen to befriend Yee, which she does by posing as Mrs. Mak and befriending Mrs. Yee (Joan CHEN). This attempt too fails, but they meet again four years later. This time Chia Chi is all set to finally entrap Yee. Will she succeed?

Director Ang LEE, born in 1954 in Taiwan, has become one of today’s greatest contemporary filmmakers. LEE graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to study theatre direction and film production. After LEE wrote a couple of screenplays, he eventually had a breakthrough with his first feature Pushing Hands (1991) and followed by The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat Drink Man Women (1994) to complete his trilogy of Taiwanese-Culture/Generation films. LEE then started to transition to Hollywood-mainstream movies and received numerous accolades for works like Sense and Sensibility (1995). In 2000, one of his greatest works Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) swept the Oscar nominations and eventually won the Best Foreign Language Film. LEE had won the Best Director Academy Award twice for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Life of Pi (2012) and he is the only Asian director who had won this award twice.