Lust, Caution

The new film from Ang Lee, the Academy award-winning director of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." A startling erotic espionage thriller about the fate of an ordinary woman's heart, it is based on the short story by revered Chinese author Eileen Chang, and stars Asian cinema icon Tony Leung opposite screen newcomer Tang Wei.

Shanghai, 1942. The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a café, places a call, and then sits and waits. She remembers... how her story began several years earlier, 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) Kuang has started a drama society to shore up patriotism. As the theater troupe's new leading lady, Wong realizes that she has found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences - and Kuang. 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 (Joan Chen) and then draw the man into an affair. Wong transforms herself utterly inside and out, and the scenario proceeds as scripted - until an unexpectedly fatal twist spurs her to flee.

Shanghai, 1941. With no end in sight for the occupation, Wong - having emigrated from Hong Kong - goes through the motions of her existence. Much to her surprise, 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, who as head of the collaborationist secret service has become even more a key part of the puppet government. As Wong reprises her earlier role, and is drawn ever closer to her dangerous prey, she finds her very identity being pushed to the limit...

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Release Dates:
@Theaters: September 28, 2007
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Genre: Thriller and Adaptation
Running Time: 157 min.
Director: Ang Lee
Writer(s): Eileen Chang, James Schamus
Producer(s): Song Dai, Ren Zhonglun, Wang Hui Ling
Distributor: Focus Features
MPAA Rating: NC-17 for some explicit sexuality.

Movie Casts:

Tony Leung Chiu Wai - Mr. Yee
Wei Tang - Wong Chia Chi/Mak Tai Tai
Joan Chen - Yee Tai Tai
Lee-Hom Wang - Kuang Yu Min
Chung Hua Tou - Old Wu
Chih-ying Chu - Lai Shu Jin
Ying-hsien Kao - Huang Lei
Yue-Lin Ko - Liang Jun Sheng
Johnson Yuen - Auyang Ling Wen/Mr. Mak
Kar Lok Chin - Tsao
Su Yan - Ma Tai Tai
Caifei He - Hsiao Tai Tai
Ruhui Song - Wang's Aunt
Anupam Kher - Jewelry Shop Manager
Liu Jie - Leung Tai Tai