No matter what I went on to do in the future, I remember those days where they were the best days,” Chan said of his UFO period, when he received a gift of videotaped footage from the 1994 festival showing him with fellow UFO directors Jacob Cheung, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Carina Lau at the old venue. Based on one of China’s most famous unsolved murder cases, the film centers on Zhan-Zhou (Zhang Ziyi), a wife charged with the bloody dismemberment of her husband during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in the 1940s – a killing that seems impossible for her to have committed alone. Reflecting on which of his films endures most with audiences, Chan noted that “Comrades: Almost a Love Story” remains the one 80% of people mention, though it’s “not the most difficult movie to me, and that’s not the most pleasant experience either, and that’s not even the most personal movie for me.” He attributes its lasting impact to timing.
Author: Naman Ramachandran
Published at: 2025-11-01 22:23:36
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