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The aim of this paper is to analyze the gender and nationalism in 〈Lust│Caution〉 which was directed by Lee An in the year of 2007. 〈Lust│Caution〉 is the adapted film from an original fiction 〈Lust│Caution〉(色, 戒) written by Chang Eileen(張愛玲) Chang Eileen was a female writer who played an active part mainly in Shanghai in the 1930's. In an original fiction 〈Lust│Caution〉, she described the fatal love above and beyond the nation and state. The movie's tragic heroine, Wong Chia Chi (played by Tang Wei 湯唯), pull a badger game in order to assassinate Mr. Yee (played by Tony Leung 梁朝偉), who was a high-ranking official of the pro-Japanese group. Wong Chia Chi, college woman disguised herself as Mrs. Mak and approached Mr. Yee. However, she was swayed by sexual sentiment to Mr. Yee, neglecting her special mission of assassinating him, one of the pro-Japanese group. At last, she delivered Mr. Yee out of danger, on this account, she herself and her hit team were arrested and then killed. Chinese audiences leveled criticism at 〈Lust│Caution〉 on the ground that this film damaged the history of the struggle against Japan's imperialism and hurt the Chinese's national pride. The Chinese audiences called all of them, the hero Lee An, heroine Wong Chia Chi, and writer Chang Eileen, down as traitors. The Chinese became angry because 〈Lust│Caution〉 valued the gender and sexuality of women above nation or state. On the other hand, Korean audiences regarded this film as an art film. They lavished praise on the dramatic interpretation of the movie director, and on the acting ability of Tang Wei and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, and on the fatal love story. Unlike Chinese audiences, Korean audiences appreciated this film freely, breaking from the closed and exclusive nationalism. China is now pursuing great-power chauvinism. Chinese audiences understanded 〈Lust│Caution〉 as making a fool of the great-power chauvinism. In China this film was appreciated only as nationalism. On the contrary, Korean audiences took the affirmative standpoint about the gender and sexuality of female in 〈Lust│Caution〉 amicably. 〈Lust│Caution〉 is the film that operates as a very important media in constructing the identity of nation, state, race, gender.