My Lucky Stars (1985)

My Lucky Stars 1985 / 福星高照 1985 / Fú Xīng Gáo Zhào , Fuk Sing Gou Ziu , Fuk sing go jiu , Lucky Stars Superior Shine , Winners & Sinners 2

A corrupt Hong Kong police officer flees to Japan with diamonds worth millions, where a Ninja group is protecting him. Two undercover cops from Hong Kong, Muscles and Ricky, travel to Japan to apprehend the renegade cop. When the two cops encounter the ninjas, Ricky is kidnapped during the fight. Muscles then calls his supervisor for assistance. Since the mobsters in Japan already have information on the officers of the Hong Kong Royal Police Force, Muscle asks instead for his orphanage friends, nicknamed the ‟Five Lucky Stars‟, to be sent over to assist him. The supervisor agrees and collects the five friends, who are all either petty criminals or low-wage workers. They refuse to aid the police at first, but the supervisor cunningly sets up a trap for them and blackmails them into helping. After being threatened with incarceration, the five ultimately agree when a pretty HKRPF detective is chosen to lead them on their mission. This film includes one of the best female fighting scenes in the Hong Kong film industry and one of Jackie Chan’s famed action sequences, when he and Yuen Bao climb a Ferris wheel in the Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park.