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The film Eat Man Drink Woman marvelously illustrates the relationship between Chinese master chef Tao Chu and his three daughters. The oldest, Jia-Jen is an unmarried schoolteacher. The middle daughter, Jia-Chen, is a successful commercial airline executive whose career comes before all else. The youngest, Jia-Ning, is a twenty-year-old romantic who works at a Wendy's fast food joint. Every family has some kind of tradition in one form or another, for the Chu family, it was the Sunday dinner. Cooking for his daughters was his way of showing his love even though he couldn't verbally show it well. It became a burden for the daughters to have to eat every Sunday together, but they later understood what their father was trying to spend time with them. At each gathering though, something happens that drives the family further apart and the family gets more individualistic. The film Raise the Red Lantern is a story about polygamy within a household. The husband to these three wives......

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