Lust, Caution

Lust, Caution

  • Director: Ang Lee
  • Writer: Eileen Chang,James Schamus,Hui-Ling Wang
  • Countries of origin: Taiwan, United States, Hong Kong, China
  • Language: Mandarin, Japanese, English, Shanghainese, Hindi, Cantonese
  • Release date: October 26, 2007
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Sắc, Giới
  • "Lust, Caution" is a feature film directed by Ang Lee and starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai , Tang Wei , Alexander Lee Hom Wang and Joan Chen . It was released in China on November 1, 2007.
    The film is adapted from the short story of the same name by the writer Zhang Ailing . It is set in Shanghai during the War of Resistance against Japan in the 1940s . It tells the story of a female college student Wang Jiazhi who used beauty to approach the traitor Yi in an attempt to assassinate Mr. Yi. Jiazhi successfully seduced Mr. Yi and prepared. When he started, he found that he had moved the truth, so he lied to the story that let Mr. Yi escape, but Mr. Yi decided to kill them all . 

    Details

    • Release date October 26, 2007
    • Filming locations Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
    • Production companies Haishang Films, Focus Features, River Road Entertainment

    Box office

    Budget

    $15,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $4,604,982

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $63,918

    Gross worldwide

    $67,091,915

    Movie reviews

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    • By Terrill 2022-04-23 07:03:32

      I advise you to drink more wine

      At night, I watched the harmonious version of Lust | Caution with the lady, and finally couldn't hold back—mainly because I made an appointment for the manuscript.

      Qian Jiale died much better, and all the sex scenes disappeared. In the first act, Mr. Yi tied Wang Jiazhi's hands with a belt, and the good scene clicked as soon as the show started; in the second act, it fell slowly, and then there were the faces of the naked (imaginary) two people. I don't remember the third act at all....

    • By Forrest 2022-04-23 07:03:32

      The Lightness of the Soul and the Weight of the Flesh

      Zhang Ailing was a person who lived in Linshui Zhaohua during the Republic of China. She was absent-minded about national justice. The world often understood her because of her proud words, not to mention that Zhang was only a woman. Including the current story of the fake thorn tiger, "Lust and Caution", which expresses one's own strengths, it is only an ideological edge ball. Zhang Ailing holds a hand mirror, and through the reflection of her words and righteousness, she illuminates the world...

    • By Gillian 2022-04-23 07:03:32

      Mr. Huang, I want to know the historical truth

      Soup and Wang are not good: fake. Lost this movie.
        
        -------------------------------------------------- --------
        Looking at Huang Jisu's comments on Phoenix Satellite TV, there has always been a poem in his mind, "I was born as a hero and died as a ghost, and I still think Xiang Yu refuses to go to Jiangdong."
          
        If you ignore the overall situation because of personal feelings, it makes sense from human nature, but such a person will surely bear a huge debt....

    • By Jasen 2022-04-23 07:03:32

      The best film in ten years

      I finally waited for the full version and watched it twice in a row for two consecutive days. It is really a masterpiece that has not been produced in ten years. It is restrained, deep, meticulously crafted, intriguing, combining wealth and talent. Hand it over to James Cameroon and he made a short-lived posh Titanic - I'm about to forget about it now, when people said it was going to be a classic, and if you had to say it, it was ten years Classic and "Lust Caution" is a century-old classic....

    • By Betty 2022-04-23 07:03:32

      Rediscovering Eileen Chang's Shanghai


          Shanghai. Eileen Chang's Shanghai.
           Those streets, those years, for her, she had already started to miss her before she left.
        Traveling through half a century of time and space, her lonely figure walks at the forefront, and wherever she walks, she seems to be leading the way for future generations. Halfway through, Zheng Pingru, who was at a young age, flashed, her charming and agile outline, like a flash in the pan. Li An hurried to catch up.
        Pushing aside the...

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    • By Annamae 2023-08-27 06:01:24

      Ang Lee's Best...

    • By Buster 2023-08-23 00:48:39

      Before the ideology is subverted, the human nature of the traitors can only be trapped on the bed. Zhang Ailing couldn't straighten out the knot in her heart, and Ang Lee couldn't straighten it out either, so she had to let the real and credible screen spectacle created by the Hollywood film industry become the footnote of the little woman's repeated thoughts, and she fell into a low position in terms of conception. , not as good as "Kawashima Fangzi". But that kind of confidence and crispness...

    • By Cullen 2023-07-18 12:53:07

      Ang Lee is really a genius, and the wonderful beat is amazing! Tang Wei is amazing, TONY breaks...

    • By Alysha 2023-06-24 02:27:43

      Comparing Eileen Chang's original novel with Ang Lee's film can well reflect the characteristics of the two mediums. Novels can go into the hearts of characters and describe the thoughts in the blink of an eye in pages. The movie is always outside the characters, so each character has no insight. Did Wang Jiazhi and Mr. Yi fall in love with each other? What are they thinking before making key decisions? The thoughtful Ang Lee gave countless clues, but the audience kept approaching but could...

    • By Macey 2023-06-23 20:26:38

      "The first time I thought Ang Lee was scary was watching Lust, Caution. I felt scared, not because of the ten-minute sex scene, but because of the complete nothingness in the movie - love is absurd, friendship is hypocritical, family love is absurd , the country is torn apart, revolutions are plausible, revolutionaries are even more unreliable ....

    Movie plot

    In Shanghai during the Occupied Period, the four wives played mahjong with bright lights during the day, and the diamond rings shone brightly during the shuffle. The husband of the hostess Mrs. Yi ( Joan Chen ) is the head of Wang's pseudo-intelligence agency. Among the three female guests, two of their husbands also served in the Wang Puppet government. The youngest "Mrs. Mai" Wang Jiazhi ( Tang Wei ) is nominally Mrs. Yi's...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    Alexander Lee Hom Wang walked down the stairs of the "Dongsheng Inn" and ran to Tang Wei and others with a regretful expression. The scene took more than 5 hours and was retaken more than 40 times.
    Ang Lee believes that many Kuomintang of China officials are from Ningbo, so he specifically asked He Saifei to play "Mrs. Xiao" in Mandarin with Ningbo accent to make the characters more realistic.
    He Saifei's main role is focused on the...
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    Positive reviews

    Tang Wei's performance in "Lust, Caution" is almost the same as Naomi Watts's wonderful performance in "Muholland Road": the youthful female student and the charming "Mrs. Mai", In Tang Wei's body, the two became one, and she converted effortlessly. She completely conquered the old and spicy Mr. Yi with the amorous feeling wrapped in a cheongsam, and quietly exaggerated this amorous feeling to the extreme in every appearance.
    Of course,...
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    Movie quotes

    • Mr. Yee: The people I associate with are those with high reputations.