My Lucky Stars

Feb 10, 1985

1h 36m

★ 6.6

Asia's top action-comedy team takes on the Tokyo underworld.

Overview

Two Hong Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.

Genres

Action

Comedy

Production Companies

Paragon Films

Orange Sky Golden Harvest

My Lucky Stars Trailers

Cast

Kidstuff / Fastbuck

Sammo Hung Kam-Bo

Muscles

Jackie Chan

Ricky

Yuen Biao

Roundhead / Blockhead

Eric Tsang Chi-Wai

Sandy

Richard Ng Yiu-Hon

Herb

Charlie Chin Chiang-Lin

Rawhide

Stanley Fung Shui-Fan

Swordflower / Chief Insp. Barbara Wu

Sibelle Hu Hui-Chung

Senior Superintendent Tsao

Walter Tso Tat-Wah

Prison Warden

James Tien Chun

Corrupted HK Policeman

Lam Ching-Ying

Millionaire Chan

Bolo Yeung Sze

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