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Lust, Caution

Year:

2007

Duration:

157 min | 148 min (edited version)

Genres:

Drama | Romance | Thriller | War

IMDB rate:

7.6

Director:

Ang Lee

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 24 wins & 46 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2007-09-24

Filming Locations: Hong Kong, China

Earnings

Budget: $15,000,000

Opening Weekend: $63,918 (USA) (30 September 2007)

Gross: $4,602,512 (USA) (20 January 2008)

Cast

Actor

Character

Anupam Kher

Lust, Caution

Tony Chiu Wai Leung

Mr. Yee

Wei Tang

Wong Chia Chi

Joan Chen

Yee Tai Tai

Leehom Wang

Kuang Yu Min

Chung-Hua Tou

Old Wu

Chih-ying Chu

Lai Shu Jin

Yin-Hsuan Kao

Huang Lei

Lawrence Ko

Liang Jun Sheng

Johnson Yuen

Auyang Ling Wen

Kar Lok Chin

Tsao

Yan Su

Ma Tai Tai

Saifei He

Hsiao Tai Tai

Ruhui Song

Wang's Aunt

Jie Liu

Leung Tai Tai

Akiko Takeshita

Japanese Tavern Boss Lady

Hayato Fujiki

Japanese Colonel Sato

Seto Masumi

Geisha in Japanese Tavern

Hui-Ling Wang

Liao Tai Tai

Noriko Kohyama

Musician in Japanese Tavern (as Koyama Noriko)

Yu Lai Cheng

HKU Theater Audience (Female)

Gao Bo-Wen

Male Ping-Tan Singer

Li Dou

Old Man at Bookstore

Anys Fatnassi

New Kiessling Cafe Waiter

Minamikata Fumika

Japanese Tavern Waitress

Zhang-Ping Gu

Hong Kong Tailor

Shi Hong

Woman at Police Line

Tang Ya Jun

Tricycle Cab Waiter

Yuji Kojima

Japanese Commander Taicho

Yat-Tung Lau

HKU Theater Audience (as Lau Yat Tung)

Lisa Lu

Mahjong partner of Aunt

Shayam Pathak

Jewelry Shopkeeper

Yu Qun

Female Ping-Tan Singer

Deng Wei

Prostitute in Brothel

Mizogomi Yoko

Japanese Teacher

Jacob J Ziacan

Western Student

Did you know?

Trivia

Ang Lee said that directing the explicit sex scenes was more difficult than directing the complicated fighting scenes in _Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)_.

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The title is actually an untranslatable pun in Chinese, in which the words for "Caution" and "Ring" (as in jewelry) are written using the same ideogram in Chinese.

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Ang Lee made Tony Chiu Wai Leung study the performances of Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris (1972), Humphrey Bogart in In a Lonely Place (1950), and Richard Burton in Equus (1977) to give him a sense of wounded masculinity, which Lee felt was right for the character of Mr. Yee.

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Goofs

The story ends with Mr. Yee and Wong picking up the ring just after the mahjong game from the opening scene. During this game one of the ladies mentions a ring with a gemstone as large as an egg. While choosing the gem for the ring earlier in the story Wong refers to this remark which clearly takes place later on in the story.

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When Tsao is stabbed, the bloodstain moves from one side of his shirt to the other. In the first shot, it is on his left side. In the two following shots before he is stabbed again, the blood is on his right side.

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The London Taxi seen is the FX4 Fairway which wasn't introduced until 1959.

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Faq

What are the differences between the R-rated version and the NC-17 version?

Ang Lee's controversial period piece was shown as a NC-17 version in US cinemas. In order to have a more profitable home media release a R-rated version has been created that features alternate footage and misses out most of the sex scenes. A detailed comparison between both versions can be found here.

Is the character Wong Chia Chi based on a real-life person?

On September 13, 2007, an elderly lady Zheng Tianru staged a press conference in Los Angeles, claiming that the movie was about real-life events that happened in World War II, and wrongfully portrayed her older sister, Zheng Pingru, as a promiscuous secret agent who seduced and eventually fell in love with the assassination target Ding Mocun (she alleges that the characters were renamed to Wang Jiazhi and Mr. Yee in the movie). Taiwan's investigation bureau confirmed that Zheng Pingru failed to kill Ding Mocun because her gun jammed, rather than developing a romantic relationship with the assassin's target. Director Ang Lee maintains that Eileen Chang wrote the original short story about herself, not about a real historical event. [wikipedia]

How much is ten taels of gold?

About 12 troy oz., or 373 g. In 1942, this was worth about US$420 - in modern terms around $5,500.

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