The Natural Son

03/11/1959

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1hr 47min

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Drama

,Family

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Patsy Ka Ling
  • Nam Hung
  • Patrick Tse Yin
  • Kong Yat-fan
  • Keung Chung-Ping

    Directors

  • Chor Yuen
  • Wong Bing

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Kong Ngee Motion Picture Production Company

    Production Countries

  • Hong Kong

LANGUAGES

  • Cantonese