8. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao Hsen, 1998)
At the finale of the 19th century, Shanghai is divides among zones of foreign influence. In the British one, a number of luxurious "Flower Houses" address the needs of the male elite. The Chinese dignitaries were forbidden to attend brothels and the aforementioned houses are their sole choice for pleasure.
However, those men visit the Flower Houses not solely for the companionship of the courtesans, but also to smoke opium, dine and play Mahjong. The women working there are called "Flowers of Shanghai".
Tony Leung plays the handsome young Wang, the longtime patron of Crimson, one of the courtesans. However, eventually he endorses another "Flower", Jasmin, subsequently throwing the life of the former into …show more content…
Lust / Caution (Ang Lee, 2007)
In this story that unreels in two time frames, during the Japanese Occupation of China, Wong Chia Chi is a university student that gets swept up in an assassination plan against a pro-Japanese, Mr. Yee, who eventually becomes the head of the secret police. Her role is to infiltrate his entourage, seduce him, and lay the ground for her Resistance comrades to eliminate him. However, her mission gets jeopardized due to his insatiable sex drive that results in ahighly sexual relationship between the two and the constant struggles and disagreements among the members of the Resistance.
In this competition between lust and caution, Leung plays Mr. Yee, who lingers between the two, with the former ending up as the obvious winner. Mr Yee presents a smooth, attractive, and cruel facade; however, he hides underneath it his perpetual strain, due to the fact that he is a traitor to his people and in a constant struggle to prove himself to the Japanese without getting killed during the process.
Ang Lee drew heavily from his evident sexuality, incorporating in the film a number of explicit and protracted erotic scenes between him and Wei Tang, who plays Wong Chia Chi.
14. Red Cliff (John Woo,
At the finale of the 19th century, Shanghai is divides among zones of foreign influence. In the British one, a number of luxurious "Flower Houses" address the needs of the male elite. The Chinese dignitaries were forbidden to attend brothels and the aforementioned houses are their sole choice for pleasure.
However, those men visit the Flower Houses not solely for the companionship of the courtesans, but also to smoke opium, dine and play Mahjong. The women working there are called "Flowers of Shanghai".
Tony Leung plays the handsome young Wang, the longtime patron of Crimson, one of the courtesans. However, eventually he endorses another "Flower", Jasmin, subsequently throwing the life of the former into …show more content…
Lust / Caution (Ang Lee, 2007)
In this story that unreels in two time frames, during the Japanese Occupation of China, Wong Chia Chi is a university student that gets swept up in an assassination plan against a pro-Japanese, Mr. Yee, who eventually becomes the head of the secret police. Her role is to infiltrate his entourage, seduce him, and lay the ground for her Resistance comrades to eliminate him. However, her mission gets jeopardized due to his insatiable sex drive that results in ahighly sexual relationship between the two and the constant struggles and disagreements among the members of the Resistance.
In this competition between lust and caution, Leung plays Mr. Yee, who lingers between the two, with the former ending up as the obvious winner. Mr Yee presents a smooth, attractive, and cruel facade; however, he hides underneath it his perpetual strain, due to the fact that he is a traitor to his people and in a constant struggle to prove himself to the Japanese without getting killed during the process.
Ang Lee drew heavily from his evident sexuality, incorporating in the film a number of explicit and protracted erotic scenes between him and Wei Tang, who plays Wong Chia Chi.
14. Red Cliff (John Woo,