Hmmm. This one is different than I assumed from the previews. I thought it would be a sexy, intrigue based mystery set in the gorgeously costumed 1930s. It is gorgeously costumed at points. It is not a mystery, it contains little intrigue, and, while it boasts a NC-17 rating, it is not sexy.
A group of college students, unable to participate actively in the resistance movement against the Japanese invasion of China, they form a theater group that turns into a group with intentions to assassinate a Chinese man who has gone over to the Japanese and sniffs out resistance movements in order to squash them. The man character, Wong Chia Chi, and a male student pretend to be a wealthy couple in order to infiltrate the man's social life. They succeed to a point and she is left to become his mistress. To tell any more would give away some crucial plot turns.
But it is a good story with interesting moral problems embedded. I think one of Ang Lee's best even if it is a little hard to watch.
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