
Prince of Tears
Original Title
Lei wangzi- Director: Yonfan
- Writer: Yonfan
- Producer: Fruit Chan
CGiii Comment
It happened in 1950s Taiwan, during the period known as the "White Terror," when an anti-Communist campaign swept up the island in hysteria. One autumn afternoon, two sisters returned from school to find their once-happy home ransacked by military police and their parents arrested and accused of being Communist spies. The film follows a quartet of characters - the dashing air force officer father, his beautiful devoted wife, a mysterious scar-faced bureaucrat and a general's glamorous wife. Their lives and loves intertwine until everything erupts in a rhapsody. Amid life in that turbulent era, friendship, passion, high-minded ideals and dignity are all put on trial in the courtroom of human desire.
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Cast & Characters
Hsiao-chuan Chang ... Sun Hansheng
Oceane Zhu ... Ping
Wing Fan ... Uncle Ding Keqiang (as Fan Chih-wei)
Terri Kwan ... Madame Ouyang Qianjun
Ariel Lee (as Po-hsuan Li)
Pei-han Tsai
Kenneth Tsang ... General Liu
Jack Kao ... Ah-Chang
Chiao Chiao ... Female Interoggator
Her Jung
Yo-Wei Lin ... Teacher Qiu
Yonfan ... Narrator (voice)