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The Natural Son
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 : | 1959 |
| Rating : | 5.5 |
| Studio : | Kong Ngee Motion Picture Production Company, |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Props, |
| Cast : | Patsy Ka Ling Nam Hung Patrick Tse Yin Kong Yat-fan Keung Chung-Ping |
| Genre : | Drama Family |
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Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
Gripping story with well-crafted characters
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
