Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the Hong Kong Film Awards as well as the Film of Merit award granted by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.
This contribution from the team that brought us the "Infernal Affairs"-trilogy deals with similar issues of the blurring of lines between moral good versus darkness. "Confession of Pain" has all the ingredients for a great movie about the scars and wounds of the past (evident in both Tony Leung's and Takeshi Kaneshiro's characters) affecting actions in the present.