Forever Friends

Forever Friends is a 1996 Hong Kong released 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). 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. Captain Li Wei-Han (Nicky Wu) is the newly appointed captain of a "Special Squad" unit which consist of misfits and rejects from other army units. He is young for his ranking which leads to others mistaking him as a private at first. He has high expectations for his unit and tells him he will lead them to succeed. On the first official day of training he is embarrassed by his unit in front of his superiors when his unit doesn't even arrive at the finish point of training but all of them falls asleep in the middle of the training field instead. This leads to him being strict and stern with them which makes his while unit hate him, but at the end his entire squad realize his a caring leader that has always looked out for them. Private Luo Zhi-Jiang (Alec Su), whose specialty is only studying and retaking college entrance exams is a clumsy clots. He has taken his college exam three times without passing, without being able to attend any universities he is forced to serve his army term. Previously the army DJ in his former unit, he accidentally played the wrong song on the loud speaker and was told to pack his belongings and sent to "Special Squad" unit. He is weak and cowardly which makes it hard for him to complete most of his training tasks. Every night he writes in a journal of the hardship he has endured while serving in the army and counting the days until his mandatory army term is over.