My Lucky Stars (1985)
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this stunt (big wheel) Jackie actually sustained one of the many
injuries he’s had during his career… It was the very last bit of the
stunt when he comes down to the ground below and he injures his left
leg, and actually when you see it, you can see that’s something’s wrong
but he keeps going, being Jackie, carries on regardless. But this is
why, when you see this next sequence, Jackie couldn’t do any running
for this bit because he injured his leg, so it’s Yuen Biao who does all
the chasing of the bad guys and Jackie actually turns up right at the
end of the chase. But you know, Sammo came up with this very clever way
for us to be interested in Yuen Biao running along.During the fight that follows (ninja fight) actually Yuen Biao sustained quite a bad injure on the back of his head, he was hit by the scabbard of a sword and he was bleeding and received first aid ont he set and he continued.
Even though the titles are similar, and the inspiration is similar, there’s actually no direct link between the story of Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The stereotypes are the same, the characters are different and there’s no connection. But when they made Twinkle Twinkle Lu
cky Stars, which was the sequel to this movie, they
did continue the characters over.This movie was really produced under the gun, they had a very-very tight schedule and different units operating at different times. So Sammo had actually had - because there were two units operating in Japan - he had a bed built inside a van, he couldn't get any sleep. He could only sleep when he was actually driven back and forth between the locations. And among the cast and crew the van was nicknamed The Hearse because it was like a funeral vehicle, it has a big box in the back with Sammo asleep and then he was driven back and forth asleeping between locations. So they would go: here comes the Hurst and everybody would jump up and down, getting back doing whatever they were meant to be doing, because they all live in fear of Sammo, and quite right, too, having worked with him, he's formidable and a brilliant man.