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Associated Press

Chinese actress Tang Wei is not obsessed about finding the right role for her future film project. 
For the Lust, Caution star, it is the people she works with on a film set and the chemistry with them that counts. 
READ MORE: Busan International Film Festival celebrates 20 years of increasing influence, as Asian cinema continues to grow
Tang shot into an international fame with her role in Ang Lee’s 2007 spy thriller set in the World War II era, which won the Venice Film Festival’s best film award.
She played a Chinese student recruited to seduce a Japanese-allied Chinese official as part of an assassination plot. The film is still Tang’s best known work outside Asia. 

Asked about the roles she would like to play in the future, Tang said Saturday her job is not about the role but about the people and the conversations with them.
READ MORE: Film review: Johnnie To's stylised musical Office dissects the financial world
“For me in this job, in this work, it’s more about who you are working with. It’s nothing about what you’re working on,” she said. “It’s the people, and the conversations, and also the chemistry that’s more important for me.” 
This year’s Busan International Film Festival is screening three movies featuring Tang, including Johnnie To’s musical Office, where she plays a bespectacled, hard-working office lady.

She also played a female lead in A Tale of Three Cities directed by Mabel Cheung and appears in epic fantasy movie Monster Hunt, which has been setting box office records in China since hitting theatres in July. 
Tang had a three-year hiatus after filming Lust, Caution, attributed to the political sensitivity of the traitor role she played in the movie, reportedly landing her on Chinese film officials’ blacklist for three years.
But in the past five years, she has been frequently spotted on screens in Asia from theatres to TV ads.

Her latest movie, Office, is the first musical by the Hong Kong action master To about love and conspiracies at a Hong Kong company set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis.
Tang said it was the right direction for her, with great chemistry.
“This is the dream crew for me. The whole crew, everybody is a master,” she said. 
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Filming with veteran Asian screen stars Sylvia Chang and Chow Yun-fat made her feel like “a little vegetable bird,” Tang said with giggles, a literal translation for a Chinese word meaning rookie. 
One thing she misses from the set is the smell of cigars, she said, bursting out laughing. To is a habitual cigar smoker.
“When you smell, oh cigar smell is coming,” she said, “oh then (you know) the director is coming.” 


The art of seduction: 'Lust, Caution' star Tang Wei talks about chemistry on set at Busan Film Festival

Chinese actress Tang Wei walks on the red carpet for the opening ceremony of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in Busan, South Korea on Thursday. Photo: AP

Tang's undercover spy flirts with Tony Leung's character in 'Lust, Caution'. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Tang walks on the red carpet for the opening ceremony of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in Busan, South Korea on Thursday. Photo: AFP

Tang and Chris Hemsworth star in 'Blackhat', an action thriller film co-produced and directed by Michael Mann. Photo: Handout

Tang stars in 'Monster Hunt', the 2015 Chinese fantasy adventure film directed by Raman Hui. Photo: Hanfout

A Busan native's guide to what to see, do and eat in film capital of South Korea 

Fans react to the arrival on Haeundae Beach of film stars during the 2011 Busan festival. Photos: Ben Weller CLICK ON IMAGE TO LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY

Lee Yong-kwan, our guide. Photo: BIFF

A news anchor prepares to broadcast from the festival.

Film-goers view posters for a Korean cinema retrospective in Haeundae.

On the festival red carpet.

A couple enjoy grilled eel and soju at a pojangmacha.

Street artists perform outside the Busan Cinema Centre during the 2011 festival.

The art of seduction: 'Lust, Caution' star Tang Wei talks about chemistry on set at Busan Film Festival

.css-jfmysa{display:inline;word-break:break-word;}.css-1ankfgb{cursor:pointer;display:inline;word-break:break-word;}READ MORE: Busan International Film Festival celebrates 20 years of increasing influence, as Asian cinema continues to grow

READ MORE: Busan International Film Festival celebrates 20 years of increasing influence, as Asian cinema continues to grow