the film also won best director and best leading actor (sung young chen) awards at the 1989 golden horse film festival, where it was also nominated for best feature film, best original screenplay (chu t’ien-wen and hou hsiao-hsien), best film editing (ching-song liao), best cinematography (huai-en chen) and best sound recording (duu-chih tu and ching-an yang) awards. the film won a kinema junpo award for best foreign language film at the 1991 kinema junpo awards, a best foreign language film award at the 1991 mainichi film concours, and a special award from the usa political film society in 1990. it was also nominated for a best foreign film award at the 1991 independent spirit awards.