Jang Dong Gun, Zhang Ziyi & Cecilia Cheung star in the 2012 Chinese adaptation of the French novel Dangerous Liaisons. Acclaimed Korean director Hur Jin Ho ( One Fine Spring Day) transplants the tale of love, lust & manipulation to 1930s Shanghai. The Pan-Asian cast delivers glamor & star power in spades in this opulent & entertaining adaptation. Appearing in his second Chinese production after The Promise, Jang Dong Gun is at his charismatic best as the wealthy womanizer caught between Zhang Ziyi, as the chaste object of seduction, & Cecilia Cheung, as the femme fatale who sends everyone down the path of ruin.
Wealthy playboy Xie Yifan (Jang Dong Gun) has never met a woman he cant have, but the one he desires the most is businesswoman Mo Jieyu (Cecilia Cheung), who plays the cynical game of love & lies just as well. The two decide to make a bet on the chastity of Yifans second cousin, virtuous widow Du Fenyu (Zhang Ziyi). If Yifan succeeds in bedding Fenyu, he gets Jieyu. & thus begins the dangerous push & pull of love & seduction. Though Fenyu resists Yifans advances at first, they gradually fall under each others spells as lives & hearts spiral out of control.