Lust, Caution (2007)

Lust, Caution (2007) Movie Reviews
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Cast: Tony Leung, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Wang Leehom, Tou Chung Hua, Chu Jr Ying, Kao Ying Hsuan, Ko Yu Lien, Johnson Yuen, Chin Ka Lok

Director: Ang Lee

Writer: Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus, Eileen Chang

Genre: Suspense/Thriller, Romance, War

Rating: NC-17

Running Time: 158 min.

Advisory: for strong sexual content and a scene of brutal violence

Synopsis: 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Strangely, Kuang re-enters her life; 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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