An absurd scene in the 2018 film Crazy Rich Asians involves a wild party on a container ship. A man casually fires a bazooka into the sky, sending the bikini-clad model who was holding the launcher flying across the deck.
High living, glamour and romance underpin the film about Asia’s [super-affluent. But the romantic comedy, based on Kevin Kwan’s bestselling novel, strikes a much more serious chord for today’s Asian business families: succession.
The movie touches on the resistance of the male lead — a US-based scion of one of Singapore’s wealthiest families — to giving up his academic career and joining the family business.
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