Word: dad
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...wrote the novel), the boy calls himself Kafka Tamura, though you never learn his real name. He left home because his sculptor father was a sadistic beast who drove his wife and daughter to decamp years earlier, and who cruelly tells the boy that he will someday kill Dad and have sex with Mom and Sis. Determined to be "the toughest 15-year-old in the world," Kafka flees the prophesy, only to collide with it at Takamatsu. Complications ensue, as do very realistic wet dreams involving both the librarian and the hairdresser. But are they dreams...
...father tried to shirk the caricature that all he cared about was foreign policy. The son, who came to office, probably figuring he'd fix schools, cut taxes, and get the hell out of Bosnia has found his passion in world affairs, arguably more so than his U.N. Ambassador dad. All the energy was in the back half of the speech-the foreign policy section-and not just because of the electric moment of a fallen soldier's mother hugging a first-time Iraqi voter...
...frustrated actor languishing in the shadow of his famous father Perry, who created Starwatch: The Navigators, "TV's longest-running syndicated space opera," i.e., Star Trek by any other name. Bertie's a bright, affable fellow, but every little success he has feels cheapened in comparison with his dad's overpowering accomplishments...
...wrote the novel), the boy calls himself Kafka Tamura, though you never learn his real name. He left home because his sculptor father was a sadistic beast who drove wife and daughter to decamp years earlier and who cruelly tells the boy that he will someday kill Dad and have sex with Mom and Sis. Determined to be "the toughest 15-year-old in the world," Kafka flees the prophesy, only to collide with it at Takamatsu. Complications ensue, as do very realistic wet dreams involving both the librarian and the hairdresser. But are they dreams? And did he really...
Koreeda, a worldwide art-house guru for his spectral memory film After Life, doesn't judge anyone, including the mother. His calm camera observes the four kids quickly falling into the roles of harried parents (the two eldest) or dutiful children (the two youngest). Akira (Yagira) is the dad, treating his sibs with a wondrously gentle authority...