In Popular Culture
- Lust, Caution is a 1979 novella by Chinese author Eileen Chang which was later turned into an award winning film by Ang Lee. The story is about a group of young university students who attempt to assassinate the minister of security of the Wang Jingwei government. During the war, Ms. Chang was married to Hu Lancheng, a writer who worked for the Wang Jingwei government and the story is believed to be largely true.
- The 2009 Chinese film The Message is a thriller/mystery in the vein of a number of Agatha Christie novels. The main characters are all codebreakers serving in the Wang Jingwei regime's military, but one of them is a Nationalist Government double-agent. A Japanese Intelligence Officer detains the group in a castle and attempts to uncover which of them is the spy using psychological and physical coercion, uncovering the protagonists' bitter rivalries, jealousies, and secrets as he does so.
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