Tokyo Powerman (English: My Lucky Stars ) is a 1985 Hong Kong martial arts turned into movie with Sammo Hung in the lead role. This also directed and was stunt coordinator.

Action

The two policemen Muscles and Ricky the Hong Kong Police pursue a former colleague who has settled with diamonds worth $ 100 million in Japanese Tokyo. In the local underground succeeds the two to find the defector and to follow him. But the two flying, so that the gangster and his entourage try to escape. It is followed by a chase across Tokyo, which ends in a theme park where the gangsters try to submerge. With the help of their courage, their athleticism and the countless passers defiance succeeds Muscles and Ricky to make the two locating and catching them. But suddenly attacks a ninja gear to the police. While Muscles manages to fight back, the ninja can turn off Ricky and take him prisoner.

Muscles pulling back and trying the gear to come in another way on the ropes, but because they know him now and the defector would identify any other police officers from Hong Kong, Muscles has an idea. He calls his superintendent in Hong Kong and calls his old gang from the orphanage. This includes, inter alia, the thief Fast Buck, who is currently serving a prison sentence. The Superintendent manages to arrange for its release. After Fast Buck first pursues old habits and is provided on an attempted car theft, he first encounters the Superintendent.

The Superintendent makes an offer Fast Buck: The rest of the prison sentence of three years be converted to a suspended sentence and a large reward to the Help for Muscles to investigate his case. The name can Muscles of the Superintendent away since he is responsible for Fast Bucks prison sentence after he left blow his gambling activities. After initial hesitation, and with the decision aid in the form of a generous sum of money in advance assumes Fast Buck. For this, however, Fast Buck must first drum up the remaining gang members. These include the Jewel Thieves Herb, the career criminal Rawhide, the silly Blockhead and Sandy, a man with a fascination for magic, living in a Sanitorium.

Fast Buck manages to drum up the gang and bring to a house, the outside looks like a ruin, is yet tastefully decorated inside. There, the group is also true for the Superintendent what Rawhide, Herb, Sandy and Blockhead outraged because they think that fast buck wants to deliver them to the police. The fact that the situation for the orphanage program is still hopeless, shows a television report, which states that the gear and them unknown woman who robbed a bank and fled the country. This serves to camouflage the group is not convinced, however. Only the involvement of attractive Barbara ensures that the transition takes on the job. Barbara will accompany the group, but must bear their part lewd jokes.

The group flies to Tokyo the next day and checked into a hotel there. That night Barbara Fast Buck wants to discuss the order details in private. He finds out that the job should be used to help Muscles, causing Fast Buck to the exit from the job. But Barbara can still change his mind. Together they want to find the hiding place of Muscles and there attacked by the ninja gear that are looking for him also. However, it is possible Muscles Fast Buck and Barbara to defeat the group with their martial arts. Muscles Fast Buck passes then the sum of money that is said to have captured the orphanage offering in Hong Kong.

Barbara and the orphanage -course enter the next day a gambling den, one of which Muscles believed that this group is one in which the defector found protection and Ricky kidnapped. The Game Master seems to fall into the camouflage of transition and reports them to the chief of the group. After this sets a police operation in the gambling den in motion, it offers the orphanage -speed protection in hiding. But there Fast Buck is identified by the defector as a friend of Muscles. The gang leader will therefore take the spoils in inspection, whereas Fast Buck is clear that this is more than hostage-taking, and he should get the money as ransom.

Fast Buck calls from the hotel Muscles, which is, however, already in the same room. However Muscles does not have enough money with me, so he accompanied Fast Buck at the handover before the haunted house of the amusement park undercover. There he must, disguised as a character, see how fast buck by members of the group will be accompanied in the haunted house. He follows him there, but has to deal with well-camouflaged enemies who want to kill him.

In the hideout of the gang leader interrogated just Fast Buck. This, however, is able to target a trick its location. Fast Buck is to the other members of the orphanage course be locked, but Barbara and they can escape. Barbara succeeds then to free Ricky. Together with the two manages the orphanage -course to smash the gang and arrest the defector. In harmony Muscles singing with his old gear their old song.

Criticism

Tokyo Powerman 1985, the top hit in Hong Kong, Jackie Chan film is actually a sham: our hero has again breathtaking missions, but appears only in passing. Strangely, the fall of little consequence because the band is so much fun. ( Cinema)

Comments

This is according to Winners and Sinners of the second film in the Lucky Stars series.
Highlights include the chase through Tokyo, the final battle in the amusement park and the struggle between Hu and Michiko Nishiwaki Sibelle. The latter had in this film her screen debut, before it was Japan's first female bodybuilding champion.
The film was commercially very successful, even in the premiere week, he played more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, making it one of the most successful films of the company Golden Harvest.
In the figure, monitored in the Muscles the money transfer, is Arale, the protagonist of the famous manga Dr. Slump by Akira Toriyama.
See also Powerman (1984) and Powerman 2 (1985 ), the third part of the Lucky Stars series.

Screenplay Orange Sky Golden Harvest Film score

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