Oscar-winning director Ang Lee's (李安) latest film Lust, Caution set a box office record in Taipei City over the last three days during the onslaught of Typhoon Krosa, a spokesman for the film's distributor said yesterday.
The spokesman for Buena Vista Film Co said that Lust, Caution, which won the Golden Lion Award at this year's Venice Film Festival, earned NT$11.19 million (US$343,400) at the box office in Taipei City from Friday through Sunday.
The film earned this amount at a time when many theaters were forced to close early because of the typhoon.
first two weeks
In its first two weeks of release, the film earned NT$72 million in Taipei City, breaking the previous record of NT$60.97 million held by Lee's Oscar-winning film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the spokesman said.
He added that the film earned NT$150 million around Taiwan in the same period.
The numerous explicit sex scenes in Lust, Caution have attracted curious people who are not regular moviegoers, the spokesman said.
topics
In addition, many of the topics raised in the film continue to be hot topics of conversation on the Internet and on television programs, he said.
Lust, Caution, based on a short story by the late Chinese writer Eileen Chang (張愛玲), tells the story of a group of patriotic students who plan to assassinate a collaborationist intelligence chief in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II.
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