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Lust, Caution (Chinese: ; pinyin: S, Ji) is a 2007 Chinese espionage thriller film directed by Taiwanese American director Ang Lee, based on the short story of the same name published in 1979 by Chinese author Eileen Chang. Lee, an Academy Award winner, won his second Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival with this film. The story is mostly set in Hong Kong in 1938 and in Shanghai in 1942, when the city was occupied by the Japanese and ruled by the puppet government of Wang Jingwei. It depicts a group of Chinese university students who plot to kill a high-ranking Chinese collaborator using an attractive young woman to lure him into a trap.<br />
The film adaption and the story are loosely based on events that took place during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. The film's explicit sex scenes resulted in the film being rated NC-17 in the US.<br />
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