My Lucky Stars

For the 2005 Chinese TV series also known as My Lucky Stars, see The Lucky Stars.
My Lucky Stars

HK film poster
Traditional 福星高照
Simplified 福星高照
Mandarin Fú Xīng Gáo Zhào
Cantonese Fuk1 Sing1 Gou1 Ziu3
Directed by Sammo Hung
Produced by Leonard Ho
Written by Barry Wong
Szeto Chuek-hon
Starring Sammo Hung
Jackie Chan
Yuen Biao
Eric Tsang
Richard Ng
Charlie Chin
Stanley Fung
Sibelle Hu
Cinematography Arthur Wong
Distributed by Golden Harvest
Media Asia
Release dates
  • 10 February 1985 (1985-02-10)
Running time
 96 minutes
Country Hong Kong
Language Cantonese

My Lucky Stars (Chinese: 福星高照) is a 1985 Hong Kong action film directed by Sammo Hung, who also starred in the film. The film co-stars Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao. It is the second film in the Lucky Stars series. The film is a semi-sequel to Winners and Sinners, with many of the same actors returning as the "Five Lucky Stars" troupe, albeit with different character names and slightly different roles.

The film was also released under the following alternative titles:

Plot summary

Undercover cop Muscles (Jackie Chan) enlists his childhood friends, the "Five Lucky Stars", to travel to Japan to help him catch a Yakuza group.

A corrupt Hong Kong cop (Lam Ching Ying) flees to Tokyo to join his fellow mobsters, whose headquarters are secretly built under an amusement park (filmed in Fuji-Q Highland). Two loyal cops, Ricky (Yuen Biao) and Muscle (Jackie Chan), travel there to apprehend him and uncover the mobsters’ lair, but Ricky is kidnapped in a fight. Muscle goes into hiding and calls his supervisor to send help; since the mobsters already have information on the officers of the Hong Kong Royal Police Force, Muscle asks to send his orphanage friends, nicknamed the Five Lucky Stars, over to assist. The supervisor agrees and collects the five friends, who are all either petty criminals or low-wage workers. They refuse to aid the police, but the supervisor cunningly sets up a false story in the media that accuses the five of robbing a bank of millions of dollars, blackmailing them into helping. They ultimately agree when the supervisor teams them up with a rookie policewoman, Swordflower, who becomes an object of lustful target to the five. They travel to Tokyo and that night, Kidstuff (Sammo Hung), the Stars' most rational and talented member, and Swordflower go to Muscle’s apartment. After defeating some thugs, Muscle reunites with Kidstuff. The operation is to send phony money to the mobsters to allow the five to enter their lair, and that way they can get closer to freeing Ricky and apprehending the criminals. After a prolonged battle at the bowels of the amusement park, the criminals lose and the Lucky Stars receive a place to live back at Hong Kong as their reward.

Cast

Despite being billed as one of the stars, Jackie Chan's role in the film is relatively minor until the final half hour. The major star of the film is Chan's longtime associate and former member of the Peking Opera School, Sammo Hung. The film also features another of that troupe, Yuen Biao.

In the first film, Winners and Sinners, Stanley Fung played an undercover policeman who was posing as the leader of the Lucky Stars gang. In My Lucky Stars and the third film, Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars, Hung's character is the nominal leader, and Fung's character is not a cop.

John Shum ("Curly" in Winners and Sinners) was notably absent from the gang in this film, due to his commitments as a political activist. He is replaced in this film by Eric Tsang.

As with Heart of Dragon, Sammo Hung's real-life brother makes a cameo appearance as a henchman.

Box office

During its Hong Kong theatrical run, My Lucky Stars grossed HK $30,748,643. It was the first film to pass the HK $30 million mark in Hong Kong.

Awards and nominations

DVD release

On 23 September 2002, DVD was released by Hong Kong Legends at UK in Region 2.

See also

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