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Chinese censors make Ang Lee recut ‘Lust, Caution’

September

Ang Lee’s new Mandarin-language spy thriller has plenty of things going for it: a Golden Lion win in Venice, critical praise and comparisons to his own “Brokeback Mountain,” and the studio’s willingness to release Lee’s director’s cut of the movie, despite the fact that it got an NC-17 rating in the States.

However, Lee, who lives in Larchmont, couldn’t seem to catch a break when it came to Chinese censorship rules. And so, according to The China Post, he’s agreed to slice seven minutes of especially explicit sex scenes from the movie in order to get an R rating and distribution in the People’s Republic.

Even more surprising: The censors actually asked him to kill an entire half hour of the movie. Lee negotiated with the motion picture authorities to whittle down their request to three key erotic scenes. The movie is expected to debut in Taiwan on Sept. 24, in NYC on Sept. 26, and in mainland China sometime in October.

This entry was posted on Friday, September 21st, 2007 at 12:45 am by Ted Mann.
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