The Natural Son
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.
Release date
11/03/1959
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Original Soundtrack
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Autumn
Oshidori kenkagasa
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Maigret at Bay
Spring
Pola X
Wuthering Heights
A Mão do Macaco
Torrents of Spring
Jons und Erdme
Family
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
For Love Alone
Daisy Miller
This Is Pleasure
The Woman from Sarajevo
Celestina
The Girl in the Bus
The Witty Bus Girl