Lust, Caution Page #6

Synopsis: Frustrated in his attempts to assassinate Yee, who is an important official in Japanese-ruled Shanghai, Old Wu, who has lost his wife and two sons as well as two women who had attempted to seduce Yee, now recruits Kuang, Mai Tai Tai, and their troupe of drama students from Hong Kong University in yet another attempt to do away with Yee. Mai Tai Tai is chosen to befriend Yee, which she does by posing as the wife of Mak, befriending Yee's wife and her female friends, and then eventually befriending Yee himself. Even though both get together, they do end up going separate ways, only to meet again four years later. This time Mai is all set to entrap Yee at Chandni Chowk Jewellers which is owned by an East Indian man named Khalid Saiduddin. The question does remain: Will she and her troupe succeed?
Director(s): Ang Lee
Production: Focus Features
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 24 wins & 51 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
NC-17
Year:
2007
157 min
$4,600,000
Website
1,824 Views


Sit down with us since you're here.

I'll accompany you women for a while.

Do you understand the Suzhou dialect?

A little, I liked listening to it when I was young.

But after we moved to Hongkong I didn't get to any more.

But you're back now, aren't you?

It's temporary. I'll be going back to Hongkong soon.

I'll be going in a few days. If there's anything you want,

I can bring some back for you.

CUTE DOG!

Mrs. Mak, will you be having breakfast?

I'm not hungry, thank you.

Where are Mr. and Mrs. Yee?

Mrs. Yee isn't awake yet. Mr. Yee has already left for Nanjing for a meeting.

To Nanjing eh?

Yes.

When will he be back?

I don't know.

Mrs. Liang took a fall, I'm going to see her.

Mrs. Mak has been having a headache for the past two days.

When she wakes up give her some medicine.

I'll be out the whole day. Take care of the house.

If Mrs. Mak feels like eating give her some porridge.

Got it.

Do you believe that I hate you?

I do.

It wasn't like this three years ago.

I hate you.

I said I believe you.

I haven't believed anyone for a long time.

Say it once more. I'll believe you.

Then you must be very lonely.

But I'm still alive.

You left for four days without a word.

Do you know I was hating you every minute?

Now that I'm back, do you still hate me?

No.

Are you still going back to Hongkong?

I want to go back.

Give me an apartment.

Brother, you can't do something illegal like this!

I...I didn't. Why are you here?

I went to the teahouse to find you.

Our branch members have been taken into custody.

Some of our safe houses have been raided.

Fortunately Ouyang was alert enough to escape.

All our lines of communication have to be cut.

You can't go back to the old places.

Then when will we act?

We need to wait for orders from the top.

Can you hurry them?

After all this, can we all leave this place?

I can't say. I don't know.

I haven't seen him for the last few days.

Ah Ma says he went to Nanjing.

I don't know if that's true.

He might have another woman.

The previous day he brought me to No. 1237 Xia Fei Road...

I know, we had people there.

There was perfume in the apartment.

There was a smell of jasmine flowers nearby.

But it didn't seem like it was left there on that day.

There was dust on the pillows.

I don't know.

Wong Chia Chi...

I don't know...

Wong Chia Chi, Wong Chia Chi!

Look at me, look at me!

I won't let you be harmed, understand?

I won't let you get hurt.

She said "I'm old already but you're still flirting with me [lit. "eating tofu"]!"

I said "Old tofu is the best!"

Since it's Mr. Yee's birthday,

she toasted him for longetivity.

I haven't seen Mr. Yee for the past few days.

He's gone to Nanjing on official business.

Well, even though you say she's old she still looks good.

But Qianchu's is really bad.

Close the door.

I was waiting for you.

You must be tired then.

I'm very tired.

Mrs. Yee said you went to Nanjing.

Don't believe what you hear.

I've been very busy these few days.

We broke a resistance cell in Chongqing.

And arrested ten of them.

They'd gone through rigorous training.

So I had to personally interrogate them one by one

to get anything out of them.

Ah, I forgot

you're not interested in my work are you?

It's very boring.

You've been very careful all this while

not to ask me about it.

That's your business.

You never ask about me too.

The only thing I can do is to wait for you here every day.

Maybe you have another woman outside.

I can't sleep, if this continues

you'll be bored of me too.

You've been busy thinking of this these few days?

And I've been losing a lot at mahjong.

The hard-earned money I've made,

I've lost almost all of it.

I should go back to bed.

Get some rest.

I'll bring you to a better place tomorrow.

Don't come into this room again.

Make way!

Let's go back.

The Minister said to wait for him.

It's been two hours already.

Two people came in at the last minute.

Drive.

It's very cold outside. You could have let me wait inside.

Wait inside?

You want to go into that place?

You really want to go into where I work?

I know, forget it.

Why are you looking at me like that?

You shouldn't be so beautiful.

I was thinking of you today. My secretary said I was distracted.

He was reporting to me,

but I only saw his mouth moving.

Not a word went into my head.

I can smell your fragrance.

I couldn't concentrate.

Those two people,

We arrested them at the bus stop.

They're key members from the Chongqing cell.

He killed some of our people.

When we were arresting them,

we bludgeoned one of them till his brains spilled out.

And we still had to drag him back for questioning.

I went down with secretary Zhang.

One of them had already died.

Half of his head was gone, and his eyeballs were a pulp.

I recognised the other one, he was a classmate from the party school.

I saw his hands chained to the posts.

I couldn't say anything.

What came to my mind

was he screwing you.

The bastard's blood sprayed onto my leather shoes.

Do you know I had to clean them before I came out?

He really agreed to give you an apartment?

I already told Mrs. Yee, I'm moving out next weekend.

He was there, I don't think he'll go back on his word.

That's great. That old pervert finally let his guard down.

Once we have a fixed location it'll be easier to make a move.

There's no hurry.

What are we waiting for?

We need information. He broke our source of information,

and took our advanced American arms.

We suffered a great loss.

The strange thing is, even the Japanese are looking for these arms.

Wong Chia Chi is very important to us.

We must make full use of her.

But she has never undergone proper training.

She can't take the long-term strain.

You underestimate her. Her strength

lies in her ability to play Mrs. Mak.

It's no mean feat that she got to this point.

The superiors value her greatly.

We had two trained female comrades who hooked him for a while,

But he found them out and killed them.

We even lost a namelist to them.

You don't understand how dangerous her situation is.

She agreed to seduce Yee, and she's done it.

Now is the time for action!

Don't tell me when to take action!

Listen up, Yee killed my wife

and my two kids, but I could still

sit at the same table and have a meal with him.

This is the life of a spy!

I would like better than no one else to kill him now.

As long as he has value to us alive, I will let him live.

Continue baiting him, and report back regularly.

Don't move without my orders.

Remember.

A resistance agent only has one motivation:

loyalty.

Loyalty to the party, to the leaders, to the country. Understand?

Don't worry, I'll act accordingly.

Good.

You only need to continue luring him into the trap.

If there's a need,

What do you think this trap is?

My body? Who do you think he is?

He knows how to act better than you guys.

He not only wants to be inside my body,

but worms his way into my heart like a snake.

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James Schamus

James Allan Schamus (born September 7, 1959) is an American award-winning screenwriter, co-founder of Good Machine production company, and the CEO of Focus Features, the motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company, until its merging with FilmDistrict. more…

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