# Lust, Caution (2007)

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**Original title**: *色‧戒*
**Runtime**: 158 min
**Genres**: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
**Directed by**: Ang Lee
**Written by**: James Schamus, Wang Huiling
**Starring**: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Leehom Wang, Tou Tsung-hua, Jacqueline Zhu

> *To kill the enemy, she would have to capture his heart... and break her own.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A Shanghai teahouse, 1939. A silk scarf slides from a man’s wrist as a woman’s gloved fingers tighten around it.

A student actress enlists in a radical plot: woo a puppet official, then slit his throat with a blade hidden in garters.

Lee’s wartime melodrama folds romance into betrayal like origami, edges dulled by candlelight.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, sexy, slow-burn

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