(湖畔草)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Hong Kong

Genres:

Drama,

Family

Runtime:

107 minutes

Year:

1959

Directors:

Chor Yuen

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Production companies:

Kong Ngee Motion Picture Production Company

Actors:

Fong Man-yu

Fong Man-wai

Chui Chung-ming

Mok Wai-sang

Wan Sum-man

Crews:

Director

Adaptation

Executive Producer

Producer

Original Story