湖畔草 (1959)
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.
演员阵容
- 嘉玲 — Fong Man-yu
- 南红 — Fong Man-wai
- 谢贤 — Chui Chung-ming
- Kong Yat-fan — Mok Wai-sang
- 姜中平 — Wan Sum-man
- 黄楚山 — Fong's father
- 李月清 — Fong's mother
- 杨业宏 — Mok's father
- 马笑英 — Mok's mother