The Family Strikes Back
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Traditional Chinese	烏龍大家庭
Simplified Chinese	乌龙大家庭
Hanyu Pinyin	Wū Lóng Dà Jiā Tíng
Jyutping	Wu1 Lung2 Daai6 Gaa Ting4
Directed by	Dean Shek
Screenplay by	Edward Lee
Produced by	Dean Shek
Starring	Dean Shek Anglie Leung Kwan Tak-hing Gigi Lai Gary Young Lim Lau Tat-sang Roy Chiao Lee Heung-kam Cho Tat-wah
Cinematography	Henry Chan
Edited by	Wong Ming-lam
Music by	Tony Lo
Production company	Cinema City
Distributed by	Cinema City
Release date	27 March 1986 (1986-03-27)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	HK$7,229,517

The Family Strikes Back is a 1986 Hong Kong action comedy film produced, directed by and starring Dean Shek.^[1]

The film focuses on a mad scientist who orders his assistants to kidnap victims for use in his experiments. When a martial artist and his assistant intervene in a kidnapping incident, a police inspector has the idea to employ the martial artist as an undercover agent for the police. The martial artist has to impersonate a Japanese ally of the villain.

Plot

Professor Kiu (Roy Chiao) is a mad scientist who developed mental disorders from grieving the death of his son. Kiu orders his assistants to kidnap men to his lab, located in a private container on a vessel, for experiments. Police inspector Uncle Wah (Cho Tat-wah) had sent his subordinates to gather evidence in the vessel, but failed to find any.

Shek La-mai (Dean Shek), an acrobatic performer working in a nightclub, has practiced martial arts since childhood and was a former commander of the Special Duties Unit before he was dismissed by the police force due to accusations of sadism. Shek is currently a single father of three children living a happy life.

One night during his performance, Shek and his protege, Lam Hong (Gary Lam), witnessed and intervened in a kidnapping incident by Kiu's henchmen, and the two became targets of Kiu. On the other hand, Uncle Wah discovers Shek's resemblance to a Japanese scientist named Toyota, who colluded with Kiu. Wah formulates a plan for Shek to act undercover as Toyota in order to gather evidence from Kiu's lab.

Cast

• Dean Shek as Shek La-mai
• Angile Leung as Vennila
• Kwan Tak-hing as Shek Fei-hung
• Gigi Lai as Shek Lai-chi
• Gary Young Lim as Lam Jan Hong
• Lau Tat-sang as Sonny
• Roy Chiao as Professor Kiu
• Lee Heung-kam as Kiu's wife
• Cho Tat-wah as Uncle Wah
• Pomson Shi as Luk
• Helen Chan as Helen
• Kam Shan as thug
• Hoi Sang Lee as Kiu's Henchman
• Sai Gwa-Pau as So
• Liu Chun-hung
• Kingson Shek as Cop
• Hui Ying-ying
• Yiu Yau-hung
• Wellington Fung as Manager
• Teddy Chan as Police Inspector
• Lau Shung-fung
• Lo Wing
• Lo Hung
• Wong Lai-ching
• Fong Chow
• Wonh Kin-chow
• Pai Lan
• Wong On-tung
• Lim Chan
• Lee Yan-fai
• Robert Goodson as Police commissioner
• Barry Bullock as Inspector Kei
• Don Ferguson
• Jonathan Pine
• Roy Stanton
• Cliff Clark
• Chang Sing-kwong

Box office

The film grossed HK$7,229,517 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 27 March to 9 April 1986.^[2]