The Natural Son (1959)
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.
- Chor Yuen
- Wong Bing
- Chor Yuen
- Luk Mei
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Alternative Title:
Grass by the Lake - HK
Country:
Hong Kong
Language:
广州话 / 廣州話
Runtime: 01 hour 47 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: literary adaptation, wenyi (melodrama)
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