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Confession of Pain

2006 · 110 min

A brooding, twisty crime drama that weighs heavily with grief and moral ruin, pulling you into its characters' slow unraveling.

Tagline
The heart is a lonely hunter...
Overview
In a city of love and prosperity, a city of lost hope and premature death, veteran detective Hei feels it all: the hurt, the helplessness, the horror. When his father-in-law, the billionaire benefactor Kim, is gruesomely murdered in his palatial mansion, he enlists the assistance of his former partner turned private detective.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • revenge
  • guilt
  • betrayal
  • obsession
  • grief
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror3
Humour2
Realism6
Romance3
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
crime, thriller
Directed by
Alan Mak Siu-fai, Andrew Lau Wai-keung
Written by
Felix Chong Man-keung, Alan Mak Siu-fai
Starring
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Shu Qi, Xu Jinglei, Chapman To Man-Chat, Vincent Wan Yeung-ming, Elliot Ngok Wah, Emme Wong Yi-Man
Music
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Cinematography
Lai Yiu-Fai, Andrew Lau Wai-keung
Runtime
110 min
Country
China, Hong Kong, Japan
Languages
Cantonese

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