The Natural Son (1959)
Drama
Family
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.
Cast
Fong Man-yu
Fong Man-wai
Chui Chung-ming
Mok Wai-sang
Wan Sum-man
Fong's father
Fong's mother
Mok's father
Mok's mother
Crew
Director
Adaptation
Executive Producer
Producer
Original Story
Cinematography
Editor
Music
Continuity
Recording Supervision
Props
Lighting Artist
Art Direction
Production Manager
Still Photographer