Winners & Sinners
1983 1h 48m movie Film Hong Kong

Winners & Sinners

奇謀妙計五福星

Synopsis

奇謀妙計五福星

Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Service), they are caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.

Audience Engagement

155
Reviews
87th
Review-volume percentile
91st
Popularity percentile

155 audience reviews — more than 87% of Hong Kong films in our index.

Popularity sits at the 91th percentile among Hong Kong films.

Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with Winners & Sinners. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

Other Titles From Orange Sky Golden Harvest

Action + Adventure in Hong Kong

81 Hong Kong titles in our catalog blend the Action and Adventure genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Winners & Sinners itself).

The 1982–1984 Hong Kong Window

Winners & Sinners holds position #10 of 42 Hong Kong films in the 1982–1984 window, below highlighted by audience rating.

  1. Blade Runner
    #1

    Blade Runner

    ★ 7.9 · 1982
  2. Buddha's Palm
    #2

    Buddha's Palm

    ★ 7.9 · 1982
  3. The Legend of the Condor Heroes
    #3

    The Legend of the Condor Heroes

    ★ 7.9 · 1983
  4. Boat People
    #4

    Boat People

    ★ 7.6 · 1982
  5. The Miracle Fighters
    #5

    The Miracle Fighters

    ★ 7.4 · 1982
  6. Project A
    #6

    Project A

    ★ 7.2 · 1983
  7. The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
    #7

    The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter

    ★ 7.2 · 1984
  8. Shanghai Blues
    #8

    Shanghai Blues

    ★ 7.1 · 1984

The 1980s Hong Kong Landscape

Catalog density by release year across the 1980s in Hong Kong, 151 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Winners & Sinners premiered alongside 13 others.

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Position in Catalog

Released alongside 13 other Hong Kong films in 1983.

The 184th Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).

Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).

Thematic Fingerprint

Tags on Winners & Sinners, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.

Distinctive themes · rare across catalog
  • counterfeit money · 2
  • cleaning service · 1
Recurring themes · common across catalog
  • gang · 26
  • chinese mafia · 7
Mainstream tags · widely used across catalog
  • martial arts · 369

Reception Benchmarks

6.9
TMDB Rating
155
Audience Reviews
Well Received
Critical Tier

Ranked #158 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (81st percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is +0.6 points above the Hong Kong average of 6.3/10.

Among Hong Kong Action productions specifically: #93 of 516 (top 18%).

Production Details

Primary CountryHong Kong
Original LanguageCantonese
Production CompaniesOrange Sky Golden Harvest, Paragon Films Ltd.
Runtime1h 48m
Release DateJuly 7, 1983
IMDbtt0086605