Winners and Sinners
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Film poster for Winners and Sinners
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| Traditional | 奇謀妙計五福星 |
| Simplified | 奇谋妙计五福星 |
| Mandarin | Qí Móu Miāo Jǐ Wŭ Fú Xīng |
| Cantonese | Kei4 Mau4 Miu6 Gai3 Ng5 Fuk1 Sing1 |
| Directed by | Sammo Hung |
| Produced by |
Raymond Chow Leonard Ho |
| Written by | Sammo Hung Barry Wong |
| Starring | Sammo Hung Jackie Chan Yuen Biao Richard Ng Charlie Chin Stanley Fung Cherie Chung |
| Music by |
Frankie Chan Chris Babida |
| Cinematography | Ricky Lau |
| Edited by | Peter Cheung |
| Distributed by | Golden Harvest |
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101 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HK$21,972,419 (HK) |
Winners and Sinners (Chinese: 奇謀妙計五福星, also known as 5 Lucky Stars) is a 1983 Hong Kong action comedy film written and directed by Sammo Hung, who also starred in the film. The film co-stars Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao, the latter serving as one of the film's action directors. It was the first in the Lucky Stars series of films a highly successful series in Hong Kong.
The film co-stars Chan in a significant role as an error-prone police officer. It also features a cameo appearance from Yuen as another police officer who gets into a fight with Chan's character.
The film is a semi-prequel to My Lucky Stars and Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars, insofar as the "Five Lucky Stars" concept and many of the same actors return in those latter films. However, the character names and indeed their roles differ - Stanley Fung's character is the nominal "leader" of the quintet in Winners and Sinners, whereas Hung's character takes the mantle in the latter films.
Sammo Hung got the idea for the film from an old TV show, in which a group of police officers from different backgrounds worked together, each displaying their own particular skills. By giving the characters humorous and disparate backgrounds, he hoped to make an entertaining film.
The film's Chinese title, Five Lucky Stars was chosen as it was evocative of the Seven Little Fortunes (aka "The Lucky Seven"). The Seven Little Fortunes was the name of the performance troupe that included Hung, Chan and Yuen, whilst they attended the Peking Opera School, The China Drama Academy, as children.
Five prisoners - Teapot (Sammo Hung), Curly (John Sham), Exhaust Pipe (Richard Ng), Vaseline (Charlie Chin), and Rookie (Stanley Fung) meet in their cell to form a friendship. Rookie assumes the leadership of the group, whilst Teapot is bullied by the others (in the later films, Roundhead, played by Eric Tsang, is the group's victim and Hung's character is the leader). Following their release, they team up with Curly's beautiful sister, Shirley (Cherie Chung), and form a company called the Five Stars Cleaning Co. While most of the group attempt to vie for Shirley's affection, Teapot ultimately forms a relationship with her.
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