Overview
Big Brother is a 2018 Hong Kong action drama film directed by Kam Ka-wai and starring Donnie Yen and Joe Chen. The film was released on 16 August 2018.
Plot
A high school is in crisis, the students are under-performing and preoccupied with non-academic activities. Henry Chan, aka Big Brother, a teacher with rather rusty writing skills yet armed with the most knowledgeable fists and heart of steel, comes to enlighten and inspire the students with his unconventional teaching methods. Just as the kids are improving their work and enjoying the merits of the educational system, trouble follows. An opportunistic entrepreneur creates havoc by sending in a motley gang of fighters to win over the land in order to turn the all ready failing school into an apartment complex. Their approach is not all that persuasive with Chan as he and his beloved class are going to give the unwelcome guests the benefits of a real education.
Cast
Donnie Yen as Henry Chan (陳俠), class teacher of Tak Chi Secondary School's 6B class who is an alumnus of the school himself. A troubled youth in the past, he was sent to the United States to attend military boarding school. Eventually he served as a Marine for the United States Marine Corps. He was persuaded by his former principal to teach at his alma meter, where he uses unconventional methods to help his students.
Chaney Lin as child Henry Chan.
Joe Chen as Leung Wing-sum (梁穎心), as honors class teacher at Tak Chi who is very patient with her students.
Lok Ming-kit as Jack Li (李偉聰), Chan's student who lives with his grandmother after his parents were killed in a car accident and works for Law after class hoping to buy a large home for his grandmother.
Yu Kang as Kane Law (羅健英), a triad leader who wants to acquire Tak Chi's land.
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