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Focus Features |
Release Date:
September 28, 2007
Summary:
Shanghai, 1942. Japan's World War II occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a café, places a phone call, and then sits and waits. She remembers how her story began several years earlier, in China in 1938. She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi. With WWII underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min. Kuang has started a drama society to shore up patriotism, As the theater troupe's new leading lady, Wong realizes that she has found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences--and Kuang. He convenes a core group of students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee. Each student has a part to play; Wong will be Mrs. Mak, who will gain Yee's trust by befriending his wife and then draw the man into an affair. Wong transforms herself utterly inside and out, and the scenario proceeds as scripted--until an unexpectedly fatal twist spurs her to flee. (Focus Features)
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Details
| Runtime: | 157 min |
| Rating: | Rated NC-17 for some explicit sexuality; Rated R for strong sexual content and a scene of brutal violence (edited version). |
| Production: | Focus Features |
| Genres: | Drama, Thriller, Romance, War |
| Countries: | USA, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan |
| Languages: | English, Mandarin, Hindi, Japanese, Cantonese, Shanghainese |
| Home Release Date: | Feb 19, 2008 |
| Director | Credit |
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| Ang Lee | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
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| Eileen Chang | Writer |
| Hui-Ling Wang | Writer |
| James Schamus | Writer |
| Principal Cast | Credit |
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| Joan Chen | Yee Tai Tai |
| Tony Leung Chiu Wai | Mr. Yee |
| Wei Tang | Wong Chia Chi/Mak Tai Tai |
| Cast | Credit |
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| Anupam Kher | Khalid Saiduddin |
| Chih-ying Chu | Lai Shu Jin |
| Chung Hua Tou | Old Wu |
| Jie Liu | Leung Tai Tai |
| Johnson Yuen | Auyang Ling Wen/Mr. Mak |
| Kar Lok Chin | Tsao |
| Ko Yu-Luen | Liang Jun Sheng |
| Lee-Hom Wang | Kuang Yu Min |
| Ruhui Song | Wang's Aunt |
| Saifei He | Hsiao Tai Tai |
| Yan Su | Ma Tai Tai |
| Ying-hsien Kao | Huang Lei |
| Producer | Credit |
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| Ang Lee | Producer |
| Dai Song | Executive Producer |
| Darren Shaw | Executive Producer |
| David Lee | Co-Producer |
| Doris Tse | Co-Producer |
| Er-Dong Liu | Line Producer |
| James Schamus | Executive Producer |
| Lloyd Chao | Associate Producer |
| William Kong | Producer |
| Zhong-lun Ren | Executive Producer |
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