notice represent i do touch on the plot and but not so a to spoil the movie . this long and sensuous movie set in 1942 shanghai during the japanese occupation be center on a beautiful and elegant young woman wong chia chi ( play by newcomer wei tang ) who with her platonic friend kuang yu min ( play by chinese male hottie lee hom wang ) be a willing participant in a group of 6 young actor friend who and catch up in a frenzy of nationalism and hatch a naïve plot to kill a powerful and seclude chinese traitor mr. yee ( play by tony leung chiu wai ) . a you might expect and wong part in this plot be to seduce mr. yee and and so and this story become a sizzle but dark story of a very dangerous affair of lust in the period in chinese history where revolution be in the air but do not yet have china in it grip . in china repress sexual climate and the relationship between kuang and wong for and of course and from the first he love this dazzling girl be a sub plot that stir in a real sense of pathos . an ominous pall even a sense of dread hang over the entire story and and there be no hint of how it be to end . the story be certainly a thriller and and under director ang lee and it be a gorgeous movie and punctuate with those breathtakingly understated chinese dress and perhaps the hot sex scene you have ever see in the movie and but it proceed at an agonizingly slow pace and be steep in the chinese way . a such it will be controversial for western audience and but for me and i see this a add to ang lee mystique a a movie making magician .