This movie of about 150 minutes, was about spy, espionage, lust, love, etc in China, Shanghai c.1940. The main character, the beautiful actress Wei Tang, played the role of a young girl grew up in the unsettling time, who watched her own coutry and fellow men, fellow women facing hardship, starvation under the invasion of Japan. She later agreed to play a role to help a group of Chinese patriots, to tempt a top Japanese collaborator into an affair with her, then trapped him some how so that her group could removed him.Beautiful cinematography, music, with talented actors and actresses, the well known director Ang Lee (Sense & Sensibility, 1995; Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, 2000; Hulk, 2003; Brokeback Mountain, 2005, etc) again showed the world a beautiful and haunting masterpiece, where nothing seemed to be simple once love, lust, espionage, etc. were involved.
