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Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Chor Yuen
- Writers
- Chor Yuen, Luk Mei
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Release date
- 11 March 1959
Ensemble
Cast

Patsy Ka Ling
Fong Man-yu

Nam Hung
Fong Man-wai

Patrick Tse Yin
Chui Chung-ming

Kong Yat-fan
Mok Wai-sang

Keung Chung-Ping
Wan Sum-man

Wong Cho-San
Fong's father

Lee Yuet-Ching
Fong's mother
Yeung Yip-Wang
Mok's father

Ma Siu-Ying
Mok's mother
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