Lust, Caution

Drama, Love Story

156 min

FSK 16

Drama by director Ang Lee that won Best Film at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. China is occupied by Japan. The student Wang Jiahzi joins a militant resistance group during the Second World War that wants to kill a high Japanese official. To get close to him, she assumes another identity in which she loses herself. Her mission is clouded when she falls in love with the man she is sent to kill.

Director
Ang Lee
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, ...
Original language(s)
Cantonese, Hindi, English, Chinese, Japanese
Credits
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Written by
James Schamus, Wang Hui-Ling, Eileen Chang
Year
2007
Country
China, USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Genre
Drama, Love Story
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Leehom Wang, Tou Chung-Hua
FSK Rating
FSK 16
Original title
色‧戒
Release date
11.10.2022
Synopsis
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In 1938 in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, the student Wong Chia Chi joined a theater group that quickly developed into a resistance cell and planned an assassination attempt on the collaborator Yee (Tony Leung). Lushly staged drama about desire, morality, betrayal and sex, told in nuanced ways and Ang Lee's declaration of love to the sophisticated urban China.