107m •
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.
2023•
10.0
1925•
7.1
1974•
6.1
1969•
0
1956•
0
1967•
0
1964•
0
1986•
3.1
2014•
0
1959•
0
2017•
8.0
1943•
6.2
2015•
6.8
2012•
0
2025•
0
1939•
0
2006•
10.0
1953•
0
Kong Ngee Motion Picture Production Company •
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
