Released:
1959-03-11

Overview:
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.

Director:
Chor Yuen

Runtime:
1h 47min

Genre:
Drama, Family

• Cast:
• 
  Patsy Ka Ling
  as
  Fong Man-yu
• 
  Nam Hung
  as
  Fong Man-wai
• 
  Patrick Tse Yin
  as
  Chui Chung-ming
• 
  Kong Yat-fan
  as
  Mok Wai-sang
• 
  Keung Chung-Ping
  as
  Wan Sum-man