Watch The Natural Son (1959) : Summary Movies 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. | ||
| Release Date | : | Mar 11, 1959 |
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| Genres | : | Drama, Family |
| Production Company | : | Kong Ngee Motion Picture Production Company |
| Production Countries | : | Hong Kong |
| Casts | : | Patsy Ka Ling, Nam Hung, Patrick Tse Yin, Kong Yat-fan, Keung Chung-Ping, Wong Cho-San, Lee Yuet-Ching, Yeung Yip-Wang, Ma Siu-Ying |
| Plot Keywords | : | literary adaptation, wenyi (melodrama) |
