 Lust, Caution
Starring: Joan Chen, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Leehom Wang
Directed by: Ang Lee
Screenplay by: Wang Hui-Ling, James Schamus
Release: September 28, 2007
MPAA Rating: NC-17 for some explicit sexuality.
Studio: Focus Features
 Domestic: $4,604,982 (7.0%)
Foreign: $61,491,724 (93.0%)
Total: $66,096,706 (Worldwide)
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 The film, based on a 26-page short story by famed Chinese writer Eileen Chang, is about a group of patriotic students who plot to assassinate the intelligence chief in the Japanese-backed Chinese government during the World War II era.
The new film from Ang Lee, the Academy Award-winning director of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." A startling erotic espionage thriller about the fate of an ordinary woman's heart, it is based on the short story by revered Chinese author Eileen Chang, and stars Asian cinema icon Tony Leung opposite screen newcomer Tang Wei. Shanghai, 1942.
The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a café, places a call, and then sits and waits. She remembers... how her story began several years earlier, in 1938 China. She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei).
With WWII underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min (Wang Leehom) Kuang has started a drama society to shore up patriotism.
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