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Lust, Caution (18)

Apr 26 2008 By Graham Young

THE first film made by Ang Lee since Brokeback Mountain, this drama is set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during the WWII era.

It's the beautifully-shot story of how a wave of oppression leads a group of young people to try to alter the course of history themselves.

Can they become sufficiently organised to smoke out the dangerous but ultra-cautious Mr Yee (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), a Chinese traitor working for the Japanese?

The 151 minute running time will make this hard-going on the small screen in the first half, but the second part lives up to expectations.

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