Picture perfect

West Nanjing Road, Shanghai in Lust, Caution (Se, Jie)

The film director Ang Lee has said that the biggest difficulty in making Lust, Caution, his Golden Lion-winning film, was recreating an authentic-looking Shanghai of the 1930s and 1940s. He spent 20 million yuan ($2.9 million) to recreate an 800-m long part of the old West Nanjing Road, once the most prosperous street in Shanghai, in a set in the suburbs of Shanghai.

Among the 13 landmarks he recreated were the Uptown Theater, the Kiessling Cafe, the Siberian Leather Goods Store and the Green House Ladies' Clothing Emporium.