The Natural Son
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.
- Year : 1959
- Country : Hong Kong
- Genre : Drama, Family
- Studio : Kong Ngee Motion Picture Production Company
- Keyword : literary adaptation, wenyi (melodrama)
- Director : Chor Yuen
- Cast : Patsy Ka Ling, Nam Hung, Patrick Tse Yin, Kong Yat-fan, Keung Chung-Ping, Wong Cho-San
