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...choice would certainly be in keeping with Chinese tradition. Victor has been the classic filial understudy. He lives with his wife and daughters in the same house as his father. In a rare interview, Victor declined questions about succession but stressed how much he is like his legendary dad: "We're good partners working together ... When we reach decisions, we almost always arrive at similar conclusions." Victor adds that he has taken on many of the day-to-day business operations. At company headquarters in downtown Hong Kong, Victor says, he toils away with middle managers in his ninth-floor...
...potato from child’s house to child’s house, carrying her bird and plants and leaving behind her dignity like Hansel and Gretel’s crumbs. Shouldn’t it be enough that her kids chant forcefully of their dedication to filial responsibility? Not when it destroys their mother. Tickets $6. 9:15 p.m., also playing Tuesday, April 13 at 9 p.m. Harvard Film Archive...
...land of Confucius, Lu Weiding carries a heavy family responsibility. His father owns a $1 billion auto-parts supplier that controls the biggest privately run firm on China's stock exchange. But while Lu Guanqiu wanted his son to succeed him, the younger Lu rejected filial obligation and spent his teens careering around rural China in jeeps and on motorcycles. When he rear-ended a dump truck, Dad finally packed him off to Singapore to study and, says Lu, "to save me from becoming a failure...
...depressed and disoriented Japan, that behind-the-scenes tale of filial piety may be more rousing than the grim generational combat depicted in the film itself. Battle Royale II is a decent war flick, though it's nowhere near as entertaining or unsettling as the original. But the story of a dying director striving to complete his final work and a devoted son dedicated to finishing the job may just provide Japan with something that it needs even more than another celluloid bloodfest: an emotional lift...
These books are hard to read, no question, just as they must have been hard to write, but they are more than just dutiful filial exercises or neurological horror stories. They have pleasures to offer--watching the weave of a mind unpicked, thread by thread, makes the act of reading itself, of stringing words together and turning them into sense, feel like a fresh miracle. Doctors estimate that by 2020 the number of Americans suffering from Alzheimer's will have increased to 14 million. "People aren't prepared for what is coming," Cohen warns us. "An army of the forgetful...