| The Kid | |||||||||||||||
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| Director: | Fung Fung | ||||||||||||||
| Producer: | Leung Biu | ||||||||||||||
| Screenplay: | Cho Kei | ||||||||||||||
| Starring: | Bruce Lee Lee Hoi-chuen Fung Fung | ||||||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Yuen Chang-sam | ||||||||||||||
| Editing: | Mang Lung | ||||||||||||||
| Studio: | Datong Film Company | ||||||||||||||
| Distributor: | Xingguang Film Company | ||||||||||||||
| Runtime: | 80 minutes | ||||||||||||||
| Country: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
| Language: | Cantonese | ||||||||||||||
The Kid, also known as Kid Cheung and My Son A-Chang, is a 1950 Hong Kong drama film starring the then 9-year-old Bruce Lee in his first leading role in the title role of "Kid Cheung", based on a comic book character written by Yuen Bou-wan,[1] who also has a role in the film. Co-starring Lee's father, Lee Hoi-chuen, this is the second film in which the father and son worked together on, the other being The Birth of Mankind in 1946.
Rich tycoon Hung Pak-ho (Lee Hoi-chuen), a medicine factory owner and chairman of the Children's Health and Education Association (兒童康育會), agrees to fund a school for poor children only for the sake of his reputation, hoping his promise will forgotten by the association soon. While leaving from the association meeting, Hung gets his wallet, watch, along with her daughter, So Mui's (Tong Yuen), stolen by robber Flash Knife Lee (Fung Fung) and his gang. While Lee runs from the police, Kid Cheung (Bruce Lee) helps Lee evade them by letting Lee hide in his house. Lee leaves the necklace he stole in Cheung's home, which is found by his uncle, Ho (Yee Chau-sui), who brings Cheung to Hung's house to return it, hoping for a reward. Hung has no intention to give them any rewards until So Mui nags him to do so, so Hung hires Ho as his new secretary and helps Cheung get a spot at his daughter's school, despite Cheung's reluctance. However, Cheung is bullied by his schoolmates and fights them, so Cheung is expelled as a result. Therefore, Hung offers Cheung a position as a apprentice in his factory where he is bullied by the foreman, Four Eyed Tsui (Chow Chi-sing) and gets into a rivalry with another child apprentice. Cheung then gets his left arm injured by his rival and later works for Lee as thief, much to the displeasure of his uncle.
Meanwhile, the female workers of the medicine factory have gone on strike due to harsh working conditions and a result of Tsui and Hung's son, Chiu, preventing their complaints from being heard by Hung. Tsui and Chiu, who have been stealing goods from the factory for Lee's gang to smuggle, devises a plot to have Lee's gang rob the factory and frame it on the female workers, while Tsui and Boaster Chiu (Yuen Po-wan) also schemes to have Lee's gang arrested as well by calling the police on them. When Lee's gang, including Cheung, proceeds to execute the robbery, Cheung bumps into one of the female workers Lui Mei (Chan Wai-yue), who defended him in the past when Tsui bullied him. Mei persuades Cheung to stop what he is doing. Lee then catches Chiu calling the police before getting in a fight with a male employee. Mei also persuades Lee to stop the robbery, believing him to be an honorable man, so Lee allows the female workers to leave and also convinces Cheung that stealing is not heroic and not right as well as telling his underling, Ratso Ping (Che Tin) to go straight and give a sum of money to Ho for Cheung and his family for farming in their ancestral home.
In the end, Mei represents the workers to request reasonable working conditions to Hung, which he agrees to. On the other hand, Hung's wife, Sei (Yip Ping) elopes with his new secretary, Lau, whom she has an affair with, while members of the Children's Health and Education Association arrive to discuss the funding of the school, which gives him a headache. Mei and her colleagues along with So sends Cheung, Ho and his cousins off as they leave to return to their ancestral home.