– Director: Ang Lee
– Stacker score: 75
– Metascore: 61
– IMDb user rating: 7.5
– Runtime: 157 min
An erotic thriller from Ang Lee, the film follows a World War II secret agent sent on a mission to seduce and kill a Japanese government official for Shanghai’s puppet government—that is, until she finds herself falling in love with the man she was sent to murder. Lee won his second Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for this film, the first being for “Brokeback Mountain.”
