"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."
- George Bernard Shaw
A Chinese movie goer is suing the Regional Censor Board in frustration with the censored version of the steamy WWII drama "Lust , Caution" by Academy award winning director Ang Lee. Set in World War-II era Shanghai, "Lust, Caution," starring mainland actress Tang Wei and Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai, is about a sexually-charged relationship between an undercover female student activist and a Japanese-allied intelligence chief.
Dong Yanbin, a Ph.D student at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, had filed a suit against the nation's film censor, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT), for infringing upon his "consumer rights," the Beijing Times said. Watch a trailer of the movie below.
The movie opened in China on Nov. 1 minus on-screen sex scenes and has since grossed 90 million yuan (11.25 million dollars) on Chinese mainland. Some filmgoers in the southern province of Guangdong have opted to cross the border into Hong Kong to watch the full, uncut version, local media have reported.
Dong was seeking apologies and 500 yuan ($67) in "psychological damages" from both SARFT and UME, the cinema chain showing the movie, the paper said. The court has not yet accepted the case.
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