1197 - My Lucky Stars - Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar (1985)

Random Acts of Cinema

English - November 27, 2023 15:35 - 1 hour - 50.7 MB - ★★★★ - 13 ratings
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1985. Sammo Hung. Jackie Chan. It sounds like we have all of the ingredients for the perfect action/comedy. And we do. We definitely have those ingredients. Hung directs a rag tag group of orphanage buddies, now older, as they are recruited to travel to Japan and infiltrate (via slapstick) a notorious Yakuza gang.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill (1967)