Lust, Caution (Widescreen, R-Rated Edition) | 
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Director: Ang Lee
Actor: Tony Leung
Studio: Focus Features
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  106 reviews
Sales Rank: 5799
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: Mandarin Chinese (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 155
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 62103667
UPC: 025195028950
EAN: 0025195028950
ASIN: B0010SAGHS
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: February 19, 2008
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Product Description
Provocative thrilling and sensual Lust Caution is the daring new film from acclaimed Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain; Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon). Set against the backdrop of a transforming country a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue love and betrayal.System Requirements:Running Time: 159 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 025195028950 Manufacturer No: 62103667
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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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 Cinematic August 10, 2008
Ang Lee strikes again - excellent photographic scenes. Intense but brilliant story and a great choice of actors to re-enact the story.
Quite exciting and moving.
Well worth a watch
Lust, Caution movie : predictable outcome August 1, 2008
Thrill, suspense, good acting are a plus.
Tumultuous sex scenes and the large gift emphasize
the resulting love and pity, especially due to the long
duration of the plot ( three years make a spy
a true wife ). A dramatic ending.
Morality : never use young inexperienced students
to perform a monumental task. They are no match to
their evil counterpart. Be flexible, change plans,
bring in bigger guns. Anyway: this is good entertainment.
 NO ENGLISH SOUND TRACK! July 29, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bottom line? My fault for not reading all the details before buying this for my wife. She is Korean and the subtitles fly by so fast she can't keep up with them. I'm native American and had trouble during fast dialogue exchanges. I'll look more closely next time. Will give to a friend from Taiwan.
Beautiful film. Reminiscent of "The Night Porter" July 26, 2008
Very well done. It has been over an hour and I'm still thinking it with the typical sadness that comes after a serious film. The film most reminds me of Cavani's "The Night Porter." Both deal with the savagery of life in occupied lands, both deal with sadomasochistic lust being the direct consequence of leading a violent life, and both end with the characters unable to connect personally to *anyone* as a result of the moral perversions of war seeping in to daily life until in life there are no more people left to trust and only to use for raw pleasure.
I'd be curious to know if Mr. Lee reviewed "The Night Porter" as part of his pre-planning for the production for this film.
Loyalty overcome by longing -- in this sumptuously filmed tale of occupied China July 4, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Wong Chia Chi is a young and inexperienced woman from Shanghai, studying at a Hong Kong university to escape from the Japanese occupation of her home city. She is soon caught up with a group of idealistic young revolutionaries, in a plot to assassinate Mr. Yee, a high ranking official in the collaborationist government. Posing as Mrs. Mak, the wife of a wealthy businessman, she insinuates herself into the family of Mr. Yee, eventually winning his trust and becoming his mistress. Trouble is, the line between her passions and her pretense begin to slowly crumble, leading to questions where her ultimate loyalties lie.
This is a gorgeously filmed and subtly acted story of love, lust and betrayal. It does plod along a bit after a while, but for the most part kept me engaged and interested in the ongoing intrigue. While there are several secondary characters, the focus is on the developing relationship, that begins as savage lust and becomes an intimate and tender bond. Mr. Yee -- played by Tony Leung -- is both ruthless and refined, troubled and self-possessed. Tang Wei plays Wang Chia Chi/Mrs. Mak -- and moves brilliantly between the wide-eyed curiosity and anguish of a bright young woman who has been abandoned by her father, and a demure but articulate and seductive Mrs. Mak.
It is a shame that most of the attention this film received on its release centered around the volatile and savage scenes of passion -- for which this film received an NC-17 rating -- since it is a carefully produced and effective period piece and the sex is filmed to portray character rather than to titillate. This review is based on the R-rated version which I saw on dvd, and in that version it struck me that the sex was filmed in a way that underplayed its eroticism. Or, a better way to put that is that the scenes convey two people who are unable to achieve intimacy -- and the only genuinely erotic scene of love play between them was their final intimate scene in which they are fully clothed and she sings to him. Only at that point did he let his guard down and when she touches his hand it is as if they are genuinely touching for the first time.
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