Lust, Caution (Widescreen, NC-17- Rated Edition) | 
| Director: Ang Lee
Studio: Universal Studios
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Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Mandarin Chinese (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NC-17
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD62033306D
UPC: 025193330628
EAN: 0025193330628
ASIN: B0010SAGHI
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: February 19, 2008
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/06/2009 Run time: 159 minutes Rating: Nc17
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Lust, Caution, Ang Lee's follow up to Brokeback Mountain, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director, continues his exploration of people with a passion for each other trapped in a world where their passion could be life-threatening, but in a very different context this time. Set in China during the Japanese occupation of early World War II, the underlying plot concerns the story of young Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei), an actress and member of a small group of student resistors planning to infiltrate the home of Mr. Yee (Tony Leung), a high-ranking collaborationist government official, in order to kill him for his role in the torture and executions of Chinese resistance fighters. Chi ingratiates herself with Yee's wife, the sophisticated and cultured Mrs. Yee (Joan Chen) under the guise of being the wife of a wealthy but unseen tycoon. Flashbacks tell the tale of how Chi came to be involved with the resistors: her acting ability is her most valuable asset, and her assignment is to act the role of Mr. Yee's lover, right down to the sex. The story of their love and the painful intimacy it involves for both of them is told through their sexual relationship, which starts out violently, drifts into S&M, and shifts with their feelings, moving from pain and fear to some sort of desperate connection. This is lust with a capital L; the film's sex scenes have become famous for their frankness and acrobatic portrayals (they took 12 days to film), but amazingly enough, it's never prurient. The nature of their sexual relationship, and not the sex itself, is the point. Chi falls in love with the man she's supposed to kill, but there is no stopping the mission and she knows it. The danger of it all collapsing for them both is ever present, and that's the Caution. The cinematography and direction in Lust, Caution is masterful, and every scene is beautiful. The film does drift into a languid pace, and at times one wonders why Lee would feel the need to draw it out at the expense of delaying the crucial climactic scenes. Still, it's a wonderful piece of storytelling that should only help solidify Ang Lee's place in cinematic history as a master of films that express the difficulty of being essentially human in an inhumane world. --Daniel Vancini
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 NC-17 version not cultural intro January 9, 2009
Elisa Berger (Addison, TX United States)
My husband and I watched only the NC-17 rated director's edition. We always watch the director edition in order to get his/her sincere cinematic vision. While the production quality, casting, acting, lighting and music were sublime, we had a problem with director Lee's stated mission: to teach modern Chinese generation of their historical past (as he outlined in the interview that accompanied the movie).
If this was his overall choice in literary material to convert to film format, why choose one with such a pornographically violent sexual heart? The only way to understand the story's literal/symbolic "raping of Communist China by the Japanese during WWII" (and their Chinese bullies represented by main character Yee) is by watching the unedited violent sexual tryst of collaborator Yee and resistance agent Mai Tai Tai. By submitting herself to a destructive relationship Mai wins Yee's trust, and at the same time is defeated since her good heart won't allow her to assassinate a lover.
Is this a celebration of Communist Chinese character? A denegration of collaborators and occupational forces? We don't see it as such. Is Lee saying that this the only way Chinese can fully understand the Sino occupation? Perhaps director Lee makes a statement on the fact that in war no one wins. At any rate, how is this a cultural lesson for today's Chinese generations? How many Chinese families want their children or teens to see that? We think it is more Ang Lee wandering into sexual cinema and taking historical costumes with him for validation.
 Great story, great acting, GREAT FILM December 31, 2008
Hervey A. Taylor IV (Sacramento, CA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
First of all, if sex in cinema bothers you, then don't watch this. This film is NOT ALL about sex. In fact the story is not centered around eroticism. It just so happens to have sexual content in the film. But I say this: If you are squeamish, OR the natural act of sex offends you OR makes you uncomfortable then don't watch this film.
This is a film for open-minded viewers who don't want "dumbed-down" material that Hollywood usually gives us. If you're looking for something powerful, intellectual and moving then this film is for you.
I love Ang Lee's films now. I enjoyed BROKE BACK MOUNTAIN, CROUCHING TIGER, EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN and now this.....He's just a phenomenal director who pays great attention to detail.
Also worth mentioning is first timer Tang Wei is awesome in this. Her acting is second to none in this film. I hope to see more of her acting in future films. Also, Hong Kong actor Tony Leung does a perfect job as well. He stepped out of his comfort zone for this role and he did very good.
I HIGHLY recommend this film.
A story of love and espionage during the Japanese occupation in China! December 29, 2008
Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
After the polemic aroused by "Brokeback mountain", Ang Lee returned to his birthplace, Taiwan miles away far from USA, but extremely tied in style in what concerns to underline and remark an epic of the resistance. It's not a mere casualty in the very beginning of the film, the projection of a brief sequence of "Casablanca" worked out as a simple tribute. Besides, the movie reminds and brings us back to the famous film of Max Ophlus' "The sorrow and the pity" in which the hateful presence of the French collaborationism also permeated the ethic dignity of one of the most civilized nations in the world.
On the other hand, the very idea of establish a handful of young aspirants of theater remarks the clever fact the art was not divorced about what it was happening. And against the odds, a very young actress decides to infiltrate herself into the narrow circle of power emblematized by a cold and lonely man who embodies the driving force of the political repression.
But as usually happens with the unpredictable human emotions, the love will make its appearance and will drift the initial plans.
Ang Lee seems to have found his bliss with this admirable masterwork, because and although the film is visibly westernized with too many commonplaces, it would be unfair to ignore the careful illumination (that reminded me to James Ivory) the smart employment of the close-up, but the main merit of Lee is to carve in relief the camera is in last instance, a peeping eye (the most dramatic and intense scenes were filmed with an accurate game of light and shadows) to intensify and magnify the dramatic impact and so, to involve still more the spectator into the dramatis personae.
A winner film whose running time (at least to me) didn't affect at all the strength of a well built script. And kudos for this new emerging promise of the cinema the actress Tang Wei seems to appear as the closest aspirant of the golden crown of Zhag Ziyi.
Lust, Caution December 23, 2008
Rheadawn Brown (Smyrna, TN USA)
This movie is superb. It is set in the time of the conflicts of WWII between Japan and China. I don't know if I would call it a love story, but there are strong emotions and highly-charged sex scenes throughout this movie. Enjoy!
live a little, get the NC-17 version December 15, 2008
Bridget Niki (Georgia)
The movie is about a Chinese women named Wong who kind of just ends up in the resistance movement against Japan from meeting friends in a play. To me, she didnt seem THAT involved in the situation but kind of fell into it. Her dad was elsewhere (in London, maybe?) and she kind of had nowhere to go. Wong, et al leech off one of their friend's rich parents and head off to infiltrate Mr. Yee's camp (he's the bad guy). Mr. Yee is married and pretty callous annnnnnd he has security out the ying yang so no one has been able to get rid of him. Wong plays Mahjong with Mr. Yee's wife's crew and just happens to catch Mr. Yee's eye. And thus starts some of the NC-17 parts. I'm talking about violent sex and unshaved armpits. Mr. Yee is not a particularly gentle soul. There is also some sexual tension between Wong and her Resistance buddy but Wong is in this horrible position with Mr. Yee and it all gets complicated. The NC-17 parts, I would have to say, do push the storyline of the movie forward, so I feel they were tasteful and called for. I would have given it five stars but I did feel the main characters were sort of flat. I was not completely enthralled in the story; there was some sort of wall between the actor's true intentions and what was put across to us, the viewer. But still, a wonderful film.
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