Forever Friends (film)

Forever Friends or "號角響起" (lit: "sound the horns"; pinyin: Hao jiao xiang qi) is a 1995 Taiwanese war-comedy film directed by Kevin Chu, starring Taiwan's popular "four little heavenly kings" (Nicky Wu, Alec Su, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Jimmy Lin).

It was dubbed in Cantonese, and the more comical title literally translates to "four uncommon young men", to cater to Hong Kong audiences.

He served a two-year prison sentence for a gang-related killing, and regrets his past because his triad boss never visited him while he was in jail.

During a mock war exercis, Luo, Li, Zeng and Wei are assigned to distribute water to the troops on their team.

In the morning, returning to the army base, they stop to buy breakfast and run into the top military personnel from the rival team and the official judge of the war games.

Since the superiors were eating and not prepared for combat, the four politely tie them with rope and bring them back to camp as hostages, winning the mock war for their team.

Jimmy Lin was the more popular of the "four little heavenly kings" and had an established fan base in Hong Kong in the mid 1990s.

After the finish of filming, the popular Taiwanese boyband Xiao Hu Dui, of which Nicky Wu and Alec Su were members, officially disbanded.

The film was released in Japan with Takeshi Kaneshiro billed as the main star due to his growing popularity in the country.

Taiwan theatrical poster showing original movie title.