Lust, Caution
One of my favorites from the extremely strong slate of films released in 2007, director Ang Lee 's Lust, Caution earned praise winning Lee his second Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival but also backlash for the film's explicit sex scenes causing it to be released in America under a NC-17 rating. Loosely inspired by an attempt to kill a Japanese collaborator during WWII, Tang Wei stars as the most naive member of a group of radicalized college students who plan to kill a collaborator ( Tony Leung Chiu-wai ) set in power by the Japanese occupation in China.
