Lust, Caution (Widescreen Edition): Amazon.ca: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wei Tang, Joan Chen, Lee-Hom Wang, Chung Hua Tou, Chih-ying Chu, Ying-hsien Kao, Ko Yu-Luen, Johnson Yuen, Kar Lok Chin, Yan Su, Saifei He, Ang Lee, Eileen Chang, Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus: DVD

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4.0 out of 5 stars Lee's combination of love and war stood out in this film, Mar 12 2008

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Jenny J.J.I. "A New Yorker" (That Lives in Carolinas) - See all my reviews
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I enjoy watching Tony Leung in 2046, The Infernal Affairs Trilogy (Infernal Affairs 1 / Infernal Affairs 2 / Infernal Affairs 3) (Special Collector's Edition Box Set) and In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collectionso it was right for me to watch "Lust and Caution." This movie wasn't so hot in the theaters and targeted to a selective few. This movie starts with the Japanese occupying Shanghai during the second world war and resistance group member Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei) is on a mission to assassinate Mr. Yee (Tony Leung), the head of China's Secret Service who's also a collaborator with the Japanese.

She's been groomed by a student theater group specializing in plays about propaganda and patriotism. Impressed by her acting skills she's recruited as a spy. She adopts the fake persona of a young wife with a lot of time on her hands, because her rich husband is away on business, and befriends Yee's gossipy mahjong playing wife (Joan Chen). She also infiltrates his bed, with the plan to seduce him and then hand him over to her patriot friends. He slipped through the net once before and now, three years later, she has him where she wants him. But lust gets in the way of her mission and she becomes unsure whether she wants to be his mistress or his murderer. There's no nookie until 90 minutes into the film, but it's well worth waiting for. Slapped with an NC-17 rating in the US, Lee refused to cut it but shaved off seven minutes for the Chinese censors.

In Hollywood standards I thought the sex is graphic and realistic, bringing to mind the "Did they? Didn't they?" of the frantic couplings of Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland in "Don't Look Now." The smoldering lovers reach many graphic sexual climaxes, but fail to achieve equivalent emotional peaks. The intensity of their relationship calls into question Wong Chia Chi's motives considering she's played as a half reluctant participant, coerced into carrying out Yee's abduction by the amateur resistance group.

Lee's late glamorous `30s Shanghai with its immaculate sets and women in perfect period costume gives Shanghai a romantic exoticism that belies the poverty and fear of the majority of its inhabitants. Beautifully shot, rich in color and full of intrigue Lee is less interested in the historical consequences of Japan's invasion of China and concentrates on the passionate - bordering on sadistic - relationship between his leads, see it for yourself it's a pretty good film.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful And Moving, Jan 31 2009

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deception and passion fused together in a magical dance between evil and innocence, power and intrigue, only one of the lovers can prevail in their secret and dangerous game and one misstep is certain death.director, Ang Lee keeps the viewer guessing until the last frame. first time actress, Tang Wei is amazing and Tony Leung is riveting as a character type we've never seen him portray before, evil, paranoid and ruthless but still somehow vulnerable to his guilty passions.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Lust, Caution, Aug 25 2008

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A young woman who has sex with an older man is disgusting. Sex most of the time with them is even more gross. Then they date and get married later. Other than that the movie was good. A young woman who has to live and put up with an old horrible evil man.

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