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Ang Lee film 'Lust, Caution' a hit in China
2007-11-07
An award-winning film by Taiwanese director Ang Lee has taken China by storm, despite much of the thriller's sex scenes being cut to please mainland censors, a report said Wednesday. "Lust, Caution", which won this year's Golden Lion award at the Venice International Film Festival, opened on November 1 and made 40 million yuan (5.4 million US dollars) in its first four days, Xinhua news agency said. The film, set in Shanghai during World War II and starring mainland actress Tang Wei and Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai, is about a patriotic female drama student who seduces and plots to murder a powerful Japanese collaborator. Despite its strong patriotic themes, the film's sex and nudity were cut due to the puritan values of China's censors. Lee won the Oscar for best-director in 2005 for "Brokeback Mountain."
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