Lust, Caution (Uncut)

Narita Misao is a rookie employee at a company. She doesn’t like Ichikawa Kazuya, who works in the same department. He is brutally honest when he talks to other people. Nevertheless, an incident leads to Narita Misao developing feelings for him. Ichikawa Kazuya also becomes attracted to her. The couple soon enter into an intimate relationship, but Narita Misao learns afterwards that Ichikawa Kazuya is engaged to his girlfriend. Narita Misao is confused by the situation and wonders what he is thinking.

An erotic espionage thriller mostly set in Hong Kong in 1938 and in Shanghai in 1942, when it was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army and ruled by the puppet government led by Wang Jing Wei. It depicts a group of Chinese university students from the Lingnan University who plot to assassinate a high-ranking special agent and recruiter of the puppet government using an attractive young woman to lure him into a trap.

Lust, Caution reminded me of The Handmaiden. Both play in countries under Japanese occupation and between the 1930-40s. Both are for mature audiences and include nudity and sexual content. The movies are based on stories, Lust, Caution on a short story, The Handmaiden on a novel.

Both are spy mystery movies set in Japanese occupied Chinese cities during 1930s..............................

Both were Chinese spy movie
Both about their own Chinese people work for Japanese against their own people.
Both has strong female leads.

Both having the same male lead actor (Tony Leung) both movies share a similar vibe even though Lust, Cation takes the love entanglement to the next level. One might see that if you watch In the Mood for Love firs, Lust, Cation seems like a continuation overall for the male protagonist. From far and unreachable to ever connected and almost wrongful placed love.

Both movies has “Lust” infidelity. Wartime movies. Love affair. Feeling growth. Forbidden love. Beautifully filmed. Sexual content.

Both films are love stories set in the 30's (China and Korea under Japanese occupation) in which one of the main Leads becomes emotionally involved with the enemy.

The story will focus on a love triangle between the three leads. Eikura plays the role of Morimoto Naoko, a girl from the countryside whose first love is her uncle, Ikezawa Masato. She follows after him to Tokyo by getting admitted into an elite medical university, but there she runs into Masato's girlfriend and colleague Aya, a beautiful and intelligent researcher who is the daughter of the university hospital's director. However, things get complicated after Naoko and Masato meet again.

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mature
Tags: Suspense, Housekeeper Female Lead, Morally Ambiguous Male Lead, Dark Fiction, Extramarital Affair, Unexpected Pregnancy, Infidelity, Death, Erotic, Nudity