Format: Blu-ray
Genre: Action
Location: Fi14b
Jackie Chan: Vintage Collection, Volume 4 (1993)
This set contains the following films:
Winners and Sinners (1983)
Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out of trouble. Trying to mind their own business (and run their Five Star Cleaning Service), they are unfortunately caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting to control the counterfeit currency market.
Heart of Dragon (1985)
Story of a cop who forsakes his dreams of sailing around the world so that he can care for his mentally disabled brother. Innocently caught up in a gangland fight, the brother is kidnapped to force the cop to turn over a police informant.
Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars (1985)
A police informant sent a letter containing sensitive information on an illegal drug operation to Yi-Ching. While on vacation in Thailand, the informant is assassinated by the drug lord’s henchmen, and, to cover up their operation, they attempt to eliminate Yi-Ching and double-agent Lau. In Hong Kong, police detectives Muscles and Ricky Fung are assigned to protect Lau, and Inspector Barbara Woo is assigned to protect Yi-Ching. She takes her to the “Five Lucky Stars” hideout and enlists their help in bringing down the drug operation.
My Lucky Stars (1985)
Two Hong-Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a lot of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the “Five Lucky Stars,” to help him. They don’t like this much, but they do it.
The Protector (1985)
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man’s daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura’s father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug kingpin, so the NYC police commissioner sends the two cops to Hong Kong to investigate. Once in Hong Kong, the pair causes no end of trouble for both Mr. Ko and the local authorities.
Dragons Forever (1988)
Jackie Chan stars as a hot-shot lawyer hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, Jackie is torn in a conflict of interest and asks his trusty friends Samo and Biao to help out at least until they discover the true purpose of the plant.
The Canton Godfather (1989)
Jackie Chan’s Hong Kong variation of Frank Capra’s “A Pocketful of Miracles” is set in the 1930s. Jackie plays a country boy who rescues a gang boss. Jackie becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. Jackie and a singer at the gang’s nightclub try to do a good deed for the old rose-seller when her daughter comes to visit, all this while battling a rival gang.