Tokyo Powerman
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tokyo Powerman |
| Original title | Fuk sing go jiu Alternative English title: My Lucky Stars |
| Country of production | Hong Kong |
| original language | Cantonese |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sammo Hung |
| script | Barry Wong |
| production |
Leonard KC Ho ( Golden Harvest ) |
| music | Michael Lai |
| camera |
Ngor Chi crook Arthur Wong |
| cut |
Peter Cheung Joseph Chiang |
| occupation | |
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Tokyo Powerman (Original title: Fuk sing go jiu ) is an action - comedy from 1985 by Sammo Hung , who is also playing a major role and was the stunt coordinator.
action
Muscles and Ricky are undercover agents for the Hong Kong Police, pursuing a former colleague who escaped to the Japanese capital of Tokyo with stolen diamonds valued at Hong Kong dollars 100 million . In the subway there, the two manage to find the defector and pursue him. When they are recognized by him, the criminal and his companion flee. This is followed by a chase across Tokyo that ends in an amusement park where the gangsters try to hide between the passers-by and rides. With the help of their athleticism, Muscles and Ricky manage to locate the two and take them. But suddenly ninjas attack the police. While Muscles manages to fight back, the attackers can take out Ricky and take him prisoner.
Muscles withdraws and tries other ways to find out about the criminals, but now that they know him and the defector would identify any other Hong Kong police officer, Muscles has an idea. He calls his superintendent in Hong Kong and calls on his old gang from the orphanage. This includes the thief Fastbuck, who is currently serving a prison sentence. The superintendent manages to get his release. When Fastbuck first pursues old habits and tries to park a car, the police are already on the lookout and use the deed to make the captured man docile.
The superintendent offers Fastbuck the option of converting the remaining three-year prison term into suspended sentence, as well as a high reward for helping to solve his case. The superintendent omits the name Muscles, however, as he is responsible for Fastbuck's jail sentence after he had his gambling activities exposed. After initial hesitation and with the help of a generous advance payment, Fastbuck accepts. To do this, Fastbuck first has to round up the rest of the gang members. These include the beautiful Herb, a jewel robber, the professional criminal Rawhide, the simple-minded wooden head and Sandy, a man with a fascination for telepathy who lives in a sanatorium.
Fastbuck manages to round up the gang and bring them to a house that looks like a ruin on the outside, but is tastefully decorated on the inside. There the group also meets the superintendent, which outrages Rawhide, Herb, Sandy and Holzkopf, because they think Fastbuck wants to hand them over to the police. The fact that the situation is hopeless for the orphanage gang is shown by a TV report that says that the gang and a woman they did not know robbed a bank and fled abroad. This is to camouflage the group, which is still not convinced. Only the introduction of the attractive Barbara ensures that the gang accepts the order. Barbara will accompany the group, but has to endure their intrusiveness and sexist pranks.
The group flies to Tokyo the next day and stays in a hotel there. The following night, Barbara wants to discuss the details of the order with Fastbuck in private. He finds out that the job is to help Muscles, which Fastbuck initially refuses. But Barbara can still change his mind. Together they want to go to the hiding place of Muscles and are attacked by ninjas who were also looking for him. Barbara, Muscles and Fastbuck manage to defeat the group with their martial arts. Muscles gives Fastbuck 200,000 Hong Kong dollars allegedly looted by the Hong Kong orphanage gang.
The next day, Barbara and the orphanage gang enter a gambling den that Muscles suspects belongs to the group where the defector found refuge and who kidnapped Ricky. The game master seems to fall for the camouflage of the gang and reports it to the boss of the group. After he starts a police operation in the gambling den, he offers the orphanage gang protection in his hiding place. But there Fastbuck is identified by the defector as an acquaintance of Muscles. The gang leader wants to take a look at the loot, whereby Fastbuck is clear that this is more of a hostage situation and that he should get the money as a ransom.
Fastbuck calls from the hotel Muscles, who comes in the door shortly afterwards. However, Muscles does not have enough money with him, which is why he accompanies Fastbuck as an undercover agent during the handover in front of the haunted house of the amusement park. There, disguised as a figure, he has to see how Fastbuck is accompanied into the haunted house by members of the group. He follows him there, but has to deal with well-camouflaged opponents who want to kill him.
In the hiding place the gang leader is interrogating Fastbuck. However, it manages to target its location with a trick. Fastbuck is said to be blocked from the other members of the orphanage gang, but Barbara and them escape. Barbara then manages to free Ricky as well. Together with the two of them, the orphanage gang breaks the gang and arrests the defector. Muscles and his gang sing their old song in harmony.
background
- After Winners and Sinners (1983), Tokyo Powerman (1985) is the second film in the so-called Lucky Stars series, a third part followed with Powerman 2 (1985). The films, which were named by the German distributors Powerman (1984) and Powerman 3 (1985), are often marketed together, but are independent films without any connection to the series.
- Michiko Nishiwaki, Japan's first female bodybuilding champion, who plays the Japanese fighter in the film, made her screen debut in Tokyo Powerman .
- The film was set in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Fuji-Q Highland amusement park .
- The character Muscles slips into when handing over the money is Arale, the protagonist from the manga Dr. Slump by Akira Toriyama .
- The film was very successful in Hong Kong and was the first film to gross more than 30 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office .
Reviews
“Tokyo Powerman, the top hit in Hong Kong in 1985, is actually a sham as a Jackie Chan film: Our hero has breathtaking performances again, but only appears marginally. Strangely enough, that hardly matters because the gang is so much fun. "
“In contrast to its predecessor, Jackie Chan's role has a little more weight and he can v. a. Put your acrobatic skills to the test in the last 20 minutes, but the focus is clearly on the 'Lucky Star' comedians and their efforts to help Sibelle Hu. "
Web links
- Tokyo Powerman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tokyo Powerman in the Lexicon of International Films