Synopsis
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
Tony Leung Chiu-wai Tang Wei Joan Chen Leehom Wang Tou Tsung-Hua Jacqueline Zhu Zhi-Ying Ven Kao Lawrence Ko Johnson Yuen Tak-Cheung Chin Ka-Lok Yan Su He Saifei Song Ruhui Liu Jie Anupam Kher Akiko Takeshita Hayato Fujiki Seto Masumi Noriko Kohyama Cheng Yu-Lai Shi Hong Deng Wei Lisa Lu Li Dou Shayam Pathak Gu Zhang-Ping Gao Bo-Wen Yu Qun Lau Yat-Tung Show All…
Joel Chong Kwok-Wing Bill Lui Cho-Hung Lau Sai-Wan Che Kiu Lam Synderela Peng Alex Mok Siu-Chung Jeffrey Kong
Eugene Gearty Marko Costanzo Wyatt Sprague George A. Lara Reilly Steele Philip Stockton Drew Kunin Leslie Bloome Mark Filip Steven Visscher Reuben Simon Sona Balam
River Road Entertainment Haishang Films Focus Features Sil-Metropole Organisation Shanghai Film Group
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I watch a lot of movies that feel so messy and out of control I just think "who is this for? Does even the director understand what they're doing?" and it's refreshing to feel, from the very start, that you're in the hands of someone who truly knows what they're doing. Lust, Caution is exquisitely made; not just in terms of its lavish production values but in every sense. It's cinema that knows just the right balance between opulent movie magic and considered understatement, hitting all the right notes whether the mood demands high drama or subtle moodiness. It's tense from about five minutes in and (even as someone who generally doesn't enjoy long films) this doesn't let up until…
A man as hot as Tony Leung couldn't truly be that evil. I could fix him, I know I could.
Only Tony Leung can make me both empathize with him and want to shoot him in the face
Lust, Caution is an exquisitely slow-paced espionage film. It revels in its Alfred Hitchcock influence, taking his template from Notorious and imparting even more opaque performances. The film was infamous on release for the explicit sex scenes, but the vibrancy of these moments makes Lee's film work narratively and emotionally.
The film is deliberate and builds like music to ecstatic releases. The first of which takes an hour to come to fruition and is marked by an incredibly violent murder. This first hour of slowly unwinding, doomed-to-failure, espionage is one of the best hours of Ang Lee's career. It is immaculately precise, with lengthy flashback sequences. It all comes together breathlessly by the end, spurred on by one of the…
i lost count of how many times i hit pause to pace around the room several times mouthing oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god just to sit back down and hit play again. a work of art.
Other than its infamous NC-17 sex scenes, Lust, Caution is highly impressive in other departments too. It's an espionage story with enough intensities and humanity to hold one's interest for its rather lengthy runtime. Ang Lee's golden touch to extract pure emotions out of a carnal, larger-than-life story is the sign of a true master.
The story of Lust, Caution is a captivating, suspenseful display of desire, manipulation and human connection in an era of deceit and extreme cruelty. We follow the stunning transformation of a Chinese female intellectual, Wong Chia Chi, as she infiltrates into the dangerous world of a handsome official who her resistance group intends to kill. It's a microscopic look into the complicated mind game and…