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Lust, Caution
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1494
- IMDb #1145
- Rotten Tomatoes #1772
- Metacritic #1805
- Letterboxd #631
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2537
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1240
- Metacritic Critics #2342
- Metacritic Audience #952
- Criticker #663
- Kinopoisk #1472
- AlloCiné #1626
- Trakt #1412
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 61, highest is Google on 86.
See the most agreed on films →In Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II, a young woman is recruited into a group of resistance actors. Their plot is to use her as a lure to assassinate a powerful political collaborator. She is tasked with infiltrating his life by becoming his mistress, but the line between performance and reality blurs as she develops complicated feelings for her target.
Details
- Director
- Ang Lee
- Writers
- James Schamus, Wang Huiling
- Based on
- Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang
- Released
- 24 September 2007
- Country
- China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States
- Language
- Mandarin, Japanese, English, Shanghainese, Hindi, Cantonese
- Runtime
- 157 min
- Rated
- NC-17
- Budget
- $15.0M
- Box office
- $67.1M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →2 wins from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| 44th Golden Horse Film Awards 2007 | Best Feature Film | Winner | |
| Golden Lion 2007 | Golden Lion | Winner |
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×| Best Feature Film | Winner |
| Golden Lion | Winner |