Lust, Caution

Lust, Caution
色,戒 (Sè, Jiè)
Directed byAng Lee
Screenplay by
  • Hui-Ling Wang
  • James Schamus
Based onLust, Caution
by Eileen Chang
Produced by
  • Ang Lee
  • William Kong
  • James Schamus
Starring
CinematographyRodrigo Prieto
Edited byTim Squyres
Music byAlexandre Desplat
Production
companies
  • River Road Entertainment
  • Haishang Films
  • Sil-Metropole Organisation
Distributed by
Release dates
  • August 30, 2007 (2007-08-30) (Venice)
  • September 24, 2007 (2007-09-24) (Taiwan)
  • September 26, 2007 (2007-09-26) (Hong Kong)
  • September 28, 2007 (2007-09-28) (USA)
  • November 1, 2007 (2007-11-01) (China)
Running time
158 minutes[2]
CountriesUnited States
China
Taiwan[3]
LanguageMandarin[2]
Budget$15 million[1]
Box office$67.1 million[1]

Lust, Caution is a 2007 movie set mostly in Hong Kong during 1938 and in Shanghai during 1942. The movie depicts a group of students from a Chinese university who plot to murder a high ranking agent. The director of Lust, Caution is Ang Lee. This motion picture is rated NC-17 by the MPAA due to explicit sex scenes. This was released in the United States in September 2007.

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lust, Caution at Box Office Mojo
  2. 2.0 2.1 "LUST, CAUTION (18)". British Board of Film Classification. 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
  3. "LUMIERE : Film: Se, jie". Lumiere. European Audiovisual Observatory.

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Awards
Preceded by
After This Our Exile
Golden Horse Awards for Best Film
2007
Succeeded by
The Warlords
Preceded by
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Asian Film
2007
Succeeded by
Assembly