| Prince of Tears | |
| Director: | Yonfan |
| Producer: | Fruit Chan |
| Narrator: | Yonfan |
| Starring: | Fan Zhiwei Océane Zhu Joseph Chang Terri Kwan Li Po-husan Tsai Pei-han Kenneth Tsang |
| Music: | Yu Yat-yiu |
| Cinematography: | Chin Ting-chang |
| Editing: | Derek Hui Kwong Chi-leung |
| Country: | Taiwan |
| Language: | Mandarin |
Prince of Tears is a 2009 Taiwanese historical drama film by Yonfan. It was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. It tells the story of a family embroiled in the tragic "White Terror" suppression of political dissidents that was wrought during the 1950s by the Kuomintang government (KMT) after their acquisition of Taiwan in the 1940s.[1]
The film was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009.[2]
The film received generally negative reviews from the press.
Hong Kong film critic Perry Lam writes in Muse Magazine, "Prince of Tears makes a strange movie-going experience for, despite all the pathos - two little girls lose their father, a loyal soldier loses his life and a happy family is torn apart - the story is aesthetically shaped and distanced by the pictorial verve of the director to be eye-pleasing at all times."[3]