Japan-Born Father: Father and Son

japan-born father: Rating NNNNArtistic son has ambivalent relationship with distant, stern immigrant father, according to NOW Magazine. It's a common subject, but BC's Tetsuro Shigematsu breathes new life into it in Empire Of The Son, one of the more affecting solo shows you'll see this season. See listing. When Shigematsu's Japan-born father, Akira, falls ill, the son finds himself looking after him, and bits of the father's life gradually come into focus, including his career as a broadcaster at the BBC in London where Tetsuro was born and the family's move to Canada in the mid-1970s. The two men one from the old world, one fully inhabiting the new clash, most dramatically in a scene in which the father criticizes the son's skateboarding. Here, Akira found broadcasting work at the CBC, only to be later demoted, thanks to cutbacks, to the mailroom. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.