Chia Chi's advances to become Yee's mistress are reciprocated. Kuang enlists her into a renewed assassination plan to kill Yee, who has become head of the secret police department under the puppet government, and is responsible for torturing and executing resistance members working for the KMT. Three years later, in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, Chia Chi again encounters Kuang, who is now an undercover agent of the Kuomintang (KMT) secret service the Juntong, which is seeking to overthrow the Japanese occupation forces and the puppet government. After a violent struggle, the students kill the subordinate and then go into hiding. While they are preparing to disband, a former subordinate of Yee turns up unannounced and tells them that he is aware of their plans. Yee move back to Shanghai, leaving the students with no further chance to complete their mission. Attracted to Chia Chi, Yee nearly falls for the trap but backs out at the last minute. Chia Chi is still a virgin, and she reluctantly consents to having sex with another student involved in the plot in order to practice her role as a married woman. Yee and tries to lure him to a location where he can be assassinated. She inserts herself into the social circle of Mrs. Mak", the elegant wife of a trading company owner. The beautiful Chia Chi is chosen to take on the undercover role of "Mrs.
Yee, a special agent and recruiter of the puppet government of Wang Jingwei set up by the Japanese occupation in China. Inspired by the club's patriotic plays, Kuang persuades the group to make a more concrete contribution to the war against Japan. Male student Kuang Yumin invites her to join his patriotic drama club and she soon becomes a lead actress, inspiring both her audience and her colleagues. Plot ĭuring the Second Sino-Japanese War, a shy and inexperienced university student, Wong Chia Chi, travels from Shanghai to Hong Kong to begin studying at Lingnan University. The two alternate readings of the title are interwoven into a cautionary tale of lust and love through the symbolic use of the ring. The character for "lust" (色, sè) can be read as "colour", while "caution" (戒, jiè) can be read as "ring", therefore the title can also read as "colored ring", an object that plays a pivotal role in the story. The title of the work, Lust, Caution, has a double meaning in Chinese. The film grossed $67 million worldwide over $16 million budget, making it the highest grossing NC-17 rated film of all time. The film's sex scenes resulted in the film being rated NC-17 in the United States.
The film adaptation and the story are loosely based on events that took place during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. With this film, Lee won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for the second time, the first being with Brokeback Mountain. The film is generally accepted to be based on the historical event of Chinese spy Zheng Pingru's failed attempt to assassinate the Japanese collaborator Ding Mocun. The film depicts a group of Chinese university students from The University of Hong Kong who plot to assassinate a high-ranking special agent and recruiter working for the puppet government by luring him into a honey trap. Lust, Caution is set in Hong Kong in 1938 and in Shanghai in 1942, when the city was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army and ruled by the puppet government led by Wang Jingwei. Lust, Caution ( Chinese: 色，戒 pinyin: Sè, Jiè Jyutping: Sik 1Gaai 3) is a 2007 erotic period espionage romantic mystery film directed by Ang Lee, based on the 1979 novella by Eileen Chang.
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