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Director Ang Lee has added another feather to his cap by winning the prestigious award ‘Golden Lion’ for his new film titled Lust, Caution. Winner of Academy Award for ‘Brokeback Mountain’ the contemporary filmmaker was awarded with the highest award ‘Golden Lion’ at the Venice Film Festival’s for his erotic spy thriller.

The coveted honor is the second win for the 52-year-old director as he was awarded with the same two years back for Brokeback Mountain, which scored a leading eight Academy Award nominations that included Best Picture and Best Director. He won the Best Director for the film, which made him the first Asian director to achieve one.

Brian De Palma won the best direction award for film Redacted in the 11-day-long event of award festival.

Lee’s film ‘Lust, Caution’ is based on the short story by Chinese writer Eileen Chang and is set in Shanghai in the World War II-era. It shows a group of young Chinese planning to kill a powerful collaborator with the Japanese, using a young woman as a seductress. The lure is trying to escape from loneliness of her father’s abandonment and mother’s death.

Lust, Caution, due to its graphic and pervasive sexual content has been given an NC-17 rating by Motion Pictures of America in the United States. This makes the film to be banned by viewers under 17.

Still, Lee will not be making any changes in the flick and it will be released on 28 September 2007 in the US.

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Source: USA Today