The Natural Son

The Natural Son

1959 · 107 min · Drama, Family

Chor Yuen started his directorial career with a bang. From its very first image, The Natural Son establishes Chor as a filmmaker of stylistic flourish, which would be sustained in various forms throughout his long tenure. Adapted from '30 cents' pulp fiction, it is a Kong Ngee melodrama made in the studio's mould, with Westernised characters and trendy middle-class lifestyles. Yet, Chor's first film is not exempt from the social urgency that characterises the Cantonese cinema of his father, Cheung Wood-yau. The film cloaks its entertainment in a moral deliberation on blood ties, its story about the raising of a bastard child a head-on challenge of archaic family values. An ostentatious start for a colourful and eventful career.

Directed by Chor Yuen

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Patsy Ka Ling Fong Man-yu
Nam Hung Fong Man-wai
Patrick Tse Yin Chui Chung-ming
Kong Yat-fan Mok Wai-sang
Keung Chung-Ping Wan Sum-man
Wong Cho-San Fong's father
Lee Yuet-Ching Fong's mother
Yeung Yip-Wang Mok's father
Ma Siu-Ying Mok's mother

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