Everyone remembers Peter Chan Ho-sun’s crowd-pleasing 1996 hit Comrades, Almost a Love Story, but how many can still name UFO, the pioneering studio behind it? The United Filmmakers Organisation (UFO) was formed by Chan, Eric Tsang Chi-wai and Claudie Chung Chun in 1992 with a specific purpose: to make quality commercial films that did not rely on action and reflected the lives of young workers from Hong Kong’s up-and-coming urban middle class. While Comrades, Almost a Love Story was UFO’s...