The Natural Son 1959
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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.
- Title: The Natural Son
- Year: 1959
- Genre: Drama, Family
- Country: Hong Kong
- Studio: Kong Ngee Motion Picture Production Company
- Director: Chor Yuen
- Cast: Patsy Ka Ling, Nam Hung, Patrick Tse Yin, Kong Yat-fan, Keung Chung-Ping, Wong Cho-San
- Crew: Chor Yuen (Director), Chor Yuen (Adaptation), Ho Chee Siang (Executive Producer), Poon Bing-Kuen (Producer), Luk Mei (Original Story), Chan Kon (Cinematography)
- Keyword: literary adaptation, wenyi (melodrama)
- Release: Mar 11, 1959
- Runtime: 107 minutes
- IMDb: 0.00 / 10 by 0 users
- Popularity: 1
- Budget: $0
- Revenue: $0
- Language: 广州话 / 廣州話
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