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Lust, Caution

To kill the enemy, she would have to capture his heart....and break her own.

Set during and after the Second World War, when Japan occupied China. A group of radicals set out to kill Chinese who collaborated with the Japanese. One young women is tasked with trapping a prominent official. Her route is to first seduce him, and then lead him into a trap. Along the way, however, she falls in love with him, putting her in a difficult position. Note the age restriction, the film features full nudity and erotic sex. In Mandarin, Japanese, English, Hindi, Shanghainese and Cantonese languages with English subtitles.

155 minutes, No persons under 18 (Sex, Nudity, Violence)
Drama, Romance, Thriller, War, On the art circuit

Credits

Cast

Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wei Tang, Joan Chen, Lee-Hom Wang, Chung Hua Tou, Chih-ying Chu, Ying-hsien Kao

Director

Ang Lee

Screenplay

James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang, Eileen Chang

Music

Alexandre Desplat

Cinematography

Rodrigo Prieto

Editing

Tim Squyres

Sound formats

Dolby Digital, DTS

Soundtrack

Available

Made in

2007

Produced by

Hai Sheng Film Production Company, Focus Features, Haishang Films, Mr. Yee Productions, RIver Road Entertainment, Sil-Metropole Organisation

SA Distributor

Ster-Kinekor

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama, thriller, erotica
Language	Strong, infrequent
Nudity	Explicit back and frontal nudity in sexual context
Sex	Explicit sex and sexual conduct, sexualised violence
Violence	Strong, graphic violence including rape
Prejudice	Racial prejudice against Japanese occupiers, infrequent, in context
Blasphemy
Drug abuse
Comments	None
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

Ratings

Scale (Max)

South African Media

Cape Argus/The StarDiane de Beer

Die BurgerJacques Liebenberg

Cape TimesKenneth Turan

The Citizen

24.comNatalie Sineke

International Media

BBC (UK)Paul Adrendt This is a stern, steely film that requires considerable patience, but stick with it for long enough and you'll be rewarded with a mesmerising study in emotional cruelty.

Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert

eye Weekly (Canada)Jason Anderson

ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli Lust, Caution is one of those films that requires patience. Like cold water brought to a boil, it takes a long time but once the bubbles start appearing, the roiling is impossible to stop

Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers The actors deserve the highest praise. Leung goes places he's never been before as an actor. And newcomer Tang Wei gives a performance that will be talked about for years. Lee is a true master, and his potently erotic and suspenseful Lust, Caution casts a spell you won't want to break.

Metacritic.com35 critics

RottenTomatoes.com132 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer Ang Lee's Lust, Caution is a tense, sensual and beautifully-shot espionage film.

Internet (IMDB)8272 Netizens

Average .. 69%

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