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Lust, Caution
Directed by
Ang Lee
NC-17
2007
2h 38m
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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.
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Cast of Lust, Caution
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Mr. Yee
Tang Wei
Wong Chia Chi / Mrs. Mak
Joan Chen
Mrs. Yee
Leehom Wang
Kuang Yu Min
Tou Tsung-Hua
Old Wu
Jacqueline Zhu Zhi-Ying
Lai Shu Jin
Ven Kao
Huang Lei
Lawrence Ko Yu-Luen
Liang Jun Sheng
Johnson Yuen Tak-Cheung
Auyang Ling Wen / Mr. Mak
Chin Ka-Lok
Cho
Su Yan
Mrs. Ma
He Saifei
Mrs. Hsiao
Song Ruhui
Wang's Aunt
Kuang-Yao Fan
張秘書
Lisa Lu
Mahjong Partner of Aunt
Liu Jie
Mrs. Leung
Ya Yu
朱太太
Wang Lin
Mrs. Liao
華棟
上海易家阿媽
Wang Kan
易先生司機
Song Jianhua
易太太司機
Anupam Kher
Khalid Saiduddin
Akiko Takeshita
Japanese Tavern Boss Lady
Hayato Fujiki
Japanese Colonel Sato
Seto Masumi
Geisha in Japanese Tavern
Noriko Kohyama
Musician in Japanese Tavern
Shi Hong
Woman at Police Line
Deng Wei
Prostitute in Brothel
Li Dou
Old Man at Bookstore
Shayam Pathak
Jewelry Shopkeeper
Gu Zhang-Ping
Hong Kong Tailor
Gao Bo-Wen
Male Ping-Tan Singer
Yu Qun
Female Ping-Tan Singer
Lau Yat-Tung
HKU Theater Audience
Jacob J Ziacan
Western Student
Yuji Kojima
Japanese Commander Taicho
Mizogomi Yoko
Japanese Teacher
Minamikata Fumika
Japanese Tavern Waitress
Anys Fatnassi
New Kiessling Cafe Waiter
Tang Yajun
Tricycle Cab Waiter
Lai Yuk-ching
HKU Theater Audience
Lust, Caution Ratings & Reviews
Desmond Dale
January 24, 2025
From the opening scene, I fell in love with its visual style. Some of the frames are like looking at hyper realistic oil paintings. It's tastefully ornate with lots subdued cool tones like emerald green and desaturated blues. The characters are always beautifully framed with natural warm lighting utilized like a dimly light spotlight revealing their subtle nonverbal cues. The plot is not too unlike the ancient tale of Judith and Holderness albeit with a much different ending. Lust, Caution kind of has the feel of an eastern neo-noir, which utilizes the ruthlessness of war as its source of foreboding doom. Its subjects are forbidden lovers who must make a choice between duty/political ideals and desire/love. There relationship is built on a tumultuous foundation and its physicality embodies the thin line between hate and desire and pleasure and pain like a microcosm of the war outside between the rebel forces and regime in rule. I loved every second that Tony and Tang were on screen and no, not just the intense sex scenes. In a way, the film was kind of victim of its own success. I was so enthralled and intrigued by the fire between the central lovers that at times I found the narrative shifts to to ancillary characters and relationships to be a bit distracting. That's one of the few flaw that I can think of along with just not being the biggest fan of the film's overall narrative structure and the jarring tone changes.
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
What lingers is the suspicion that women carry a burden of war they can't ever put down, and that even noble idealists can justify turning their girls into whores.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
There is deception, suspicion and self-delusion, but it all seems rendered at arm's length, despite the consummate artistry of the filmmaking.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
There is plenty of lust exercised in the athletic, don't-try-this-at-home sex scenes between Hong Kong star Tony Leung and the stunning Chinese newcomer Wei Tang.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Lust, Caution is a major film, but it feels like a minor work in Lee's canon.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
Overwrought and overlong, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution nevertheless has some moments of exquisite beauty and a potentially star-making performance from newcomer Tang Wei.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Lust, Caution asks some patience of us, but our patience pays off.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
In a film where casting is a vital component in the edgy equation, Leung and Tang make a picturesque and dramatically compelling couple.
Slate
Dana Stevens
Both a cannily constructed spy thriller and a grim kind of love story.
The Hollywood Reporter
Ray Bennett
The film looks gorgeous but the plotting is clumsy and the acting is flat.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Like the two opposing forces in the title, the book and the film compliment and balance each other; each is, in its way, a rich experience.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
By the time [Lee] gets to the lust, it is too late to throw caution to the winds.
San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Newman
In the broad strokes and beautiful particularity of its bittersweet love story, Lust, Caution could not come from any other place but China.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Overly extended adaptation of a short story about a female Chinese nationalist who uses sex to compromise and trap a cruel Japanese collaborator.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Lust, Caution is a disappointment coming from director Ang Lee, but it's a watchable one, and it rattles around in your head for a long time after you've seen it, as much for what it does right as for where it goes wrong.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A freeze-dried story has been only partially defrosted.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
A quietly compelling drama of hidden desperation and fierce passions.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Stylized and visually arresting, with intense sex scenes that earned the film an NC-17 rating, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution is an immersion into another time, place and mentality.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Mixing a stately pace with bursts of raw violence and blunt eroticism, Lust, Caution indeed deftly blends those two attitudes.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The nature of the sex is Lee's subject, and he is too honest to suppress that.
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