My Lucky Stars / Fuk sing go jiu (1985) [The Criterion Collection]

Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
Writer: Barry Wong, Cheuk-Hon Szeto, Kin Lo
Stars: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Charlie Chin, Stanley Sui-Fan Fung

Longtime friends Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao—who had worked together since childhood as part of a Beijing opera troupe—join forces for this rollicking blend of action thrills and lunatic humor, which sees Chan’s undercover agent recruiting his band of outlaw buddies to travel to Japan in order to help him catch a rogue cop who has stolen millions in jewels. Though not the main star, Chan lights up the screen in the film’s most exhilarating set pieces: a kinetic amusement-park-set opening and a surreal haunted-house finale, both stylishly and creatively staged by director-star Hung.


Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar:
Originally tapped as a potential successor to Bruce Lee, Hong Kong martial-arts phenom Jackie Chan soon established his own unique screen persona, blending goofball slapstick and bone-crunching kung fu into intricate feats of supercharged athleticism. Tracing his rise from breakout star to full-fledged auteur, these six unabashedly silly, unstoppably entertaining early-career highlights find Chan refining the lovably mischievous image that would make him a global icon, while also assuming greater creative control over his projects—first as his own martial-arts choreographer, and later as a writer-director who set a thrilling new standard for daredevil action comedy.

Extras:
- CLOWN PRINCE - Archival Interview with actor-director Sammo Hung (18:01)
- LADY DAREDEVIL - Archival Interview with Michiko Nishiwaki (20:46)
- NG SHOTS - (22:07)
- CANTONESE TRAILER
- ENGLISH-DUBBEN TRAILER