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Forever Friends is a taiwanais film of genre War with Takeshi Kaneshiro
Forever Friends (1995)
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Add to a movie listForever Friends (Chinese: 四個不平凡的少年; Jyutping: Sei goh bat ping faan dik siu nin) is a 1996 Hong Kong released Taiwanese war-comedy film directed by Chu Yin-ping, starring Taiwan's popular "four little heavenly kings" (Nicky Wu, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jimmy Lin and Alec Su). The original Taiwanese version of the film in Mandarin Chinese language was released in 1995 under the title "號角響起" (pinyin: Hao jiao xiang qi) which literally translate to "sounded horns". With the raising popularity of the "four little heavenly kings" in Hong Kong, the film was dubbed in Cantonese and renamed to a more comical title which literally translate to "four not normal youngsters" in order to cater more to the Hong Kong audiences.
Synopsis
In the mid 1990s with rumor of Mainland China declaring war on Taiwan, both sides tense up afraid of war breaking out. Taiwan in order to show their military power against Mainland gives all of their troops a strict intense war training in order to prepare for war.Actors
Takeshi Kaneshiro
(Private Li Ta-Wei)
Jimmy Lin
(Private Zeng Zhi-Xiang)
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