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The Natural Son

0.0(0)19591h 47m1

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.

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Cantonese
  • literary adaptation
  • wenyi (melodrama)

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  • Hong KongHK

    • TheatricalThe original Luk Mei's "Three-dime novel" "Illegitimate child", published by Universal Publisher, was adapted into the Rediffusion Radio airwave novel "Grass by the lake".11 Mar 1959

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The Natural Son was released on 11 March 1959.
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The Natural Son (1959) was directed by Chor Yuen.
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The Natural Son runs for 1h 47m.

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