Tang Wei, the Chinese actress who stared in Ang Lee's erotic spy thriller Lust, Caution, has been blacklisted in China due to controversy over the film.
Chinese print and electronic media had been "notified on Friday to immediately remove" any works and commercials featuring Tang Wei.
Tang Wei came under fire as the film, a tense drama set during Japan's occupation of Shanghai in the 1940s, was deemed as "beautifying" those who collaborated with the Japanese at that time.
In Lust Caution which contains explicit sex scenes, Tang Wei joins the Chinese resistance and is tasked with killing a powerful Japanese collaborator, played by Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (whose soon-to-be wife Carina Lau involved in Edison Chen indecent photo scandal), but she changes her mind at the last minute. Source: AFP