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Lust, Caution

Name: Lust, Caution
Released: 2007

色‧戒

2007

In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, a young woman in a resistance cell is tasked with seducing and setting up a powerful collaborator for assassination, but as she draws close she finds her loyalties dangerously blurred. Ang Lee's tense, sensual espionage drama.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Taiwan

This film is stop 2 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Taiwan. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

Watching this film stamps Taiwan in the 196 country film challenge.