Ciao UFO

Ciao UFO (2025)

再見UFO

For hope, look to the stars.

Wah Fu Estate in Aberdeen is the home of many urban legends, but few were as outlandish as the one that happened in the 1980s: One night, residents turned their heads to the sky and saw a giant UFO hovering above them for five minutes. No one else could prove or explain the odd phenomenon, but it becomes the pivotal event for three young people.

Date of release
2025-12-25
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (6)
Runtime
2h 1m
Genres
Drama
Director
Patrick Leung Pak-kin

Casting

Interesting facts

Ciao UFO is a 2019 Hong Kong drama film directed by Patrick Leung and starring Chui Tien-you, Charlene Choi, and Wong You-nam as a group of childhood best friends growing up together. Based on the 1985 urban legend surrounding UFO sightings at Wah Fu Estate, the story follows their lives from 1985 to 2003, tracing how they witness a UFO together as children but gradually drift apart as they grow older and pursue their own ambitions, ultimately forgetting their childhood dreams.

Production

Film producer Amy Chin's company managed the boy group Shine (consisting of Chui Tien-you and Wong You-nam) and would plan a film project to sustain the duo's renewed popularity following their comeback concerts, beginning with their 2013 concert tour and the film The Midnight After (2014), in which they both starred. In 2016, the company planned to develop another film coinciding with their 2018 concert tour.

In 2017, after completing the screenplay, Chin sought an experienced director for the project and approached Patrick Leung, a university classmate with whom she had previously worked when Leung served as assistant director to John Woo and Chin worked in production for Woo's company Milestone Pictures.

Gillian Chung later withdrew from the project due to scheduling conflicts, and her role was filled by Michelle Wai, who belonged to the same talent agency. To prepare for her role as a fan of Yi Shu's novels, Wai specifically read the author's works and attempted to embody the feminine traits portrayed in them.

Principal photography began on 29 May 2018 at the Hong Kong Space Museum in Tsim Sha Tsui, with Alfred Cheung, Rachel Leung, and Ng Siu-hin also announced as part of the cast. Leung Ming-kai served as the film's cinematographer.

The funeral home scene was filmed in Lo Lung Hang, Hung Hom, and because the scene was set on 1 July 1997, the date of the Handover of Hong Kong, when heavy rain historically fell throughout the night, the crew prepared two water trucks for artificial raining effects, only for a real rainstorm to continue until dawn during filming.

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