Dangerous Liaisons (2012 film)

Dangerous Liaisons Chinese is a 2012 Chinese film by Hur Jinho loosely based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The novel has been adapted numerous times, including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, an adaptation by Roger Vadim 1959, the eponymous Hollywood film 1988, Valmont 1989, Cruel Intentions 1999, and Untold Scandal from South Korea 2003.

Shanghai, September 1931 Wealthy businessman and serial seducer Xie Yifan Jang Donggun is introduced to his uncles granddaughter, Du Fenyu Zhang Ziyi, when his maternal grandmother, Du Ruixue Lisa Lu, arrives at his apartment one day. Fenyu, a young widow whos just arrived from Northeast China aka Manchuria where the Japanese are making incursions, is staying at the country home of Madam Du, her grandaunt.At a glitzy fundraiser for refugees thrown by Hudong Bank chairwoman Mo Jieyu Cecilia Cheung at Yifans nightclub, Jieyu, an old friend of Yifan whos never succumbed to his advances, asks him to rob Beibei Candy Wang, the 16yearold fiancee of tycoon Jin Zhihuan Zhang Han, of her virginity. Jieyu wants revenge on Jin, for publicly dumping her in favor of a schoolgirl. Yifan turns down Jieyus request, partly because he has another quarry in his sightsthe quiet and retiring Fenyu. Sensing an opportunity for some sport, Jieyu makes Yifan a wager if he can seduce Fenyu without falling in love, she will finally agree to sleep with him if he fails, he will sign over a valuable piece of land to her. Yifan accepts the challenge, but finds the virtuous Fenyu apparently immune to his charms. ........

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