Internet Go Filmography
Film
1) The Go Masters (Mikan no taikyoku), color, 123 min
Year: 1983
Directed by: Ji-shun Duah, Junya Sato
Cast:
Produced by: Masahiro Sato, Zhi-min Wang
Original music by: Hikaru Hayashi, Ding-xian Jiang
Cinematography by: Shohei Ando, De-an Luo
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: A "Gone with the wind" all about Go, a must!
2) Heaven knows Mr.Allison (it. La carne e l'anima)
Year: 1957
Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Produced by: Buddy Adler, Eugene Frenke
Original music by: Georges Auric
Cinematography by: Oswald Morris
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: Based on the book is by Charles Shaw.
The first scene lasts 14 seconds. Allison is hidden in a dark corner of
the store room as he tries to steal food. Two Japanese, one might be a chef
rather than a soldier, clear a box, lift down a 3cm go ban with go bowls.
The player on the right knows his colour and pushes the white bowl to the
other who balances bowl and lid on his knees. Black slaps a stone down
top-left (5-3?) and white replies top-right. We hear the click of stones
whilst we see the hidden Allison. After a cut to Sister Angela who is
worried why Allison is missing, we return for a scene that lasts nearly a
minute. The board is now nearly full. The players laugh as if a rip-off has
just been played. The chef pours from a huge sake bottle whilst the other
hides his eyes. They have skilfully left territory in front of themselves
for the very large sake cups. They start another game. For 27 seconds we
hear the click of stones as a rat runs over Mr Allison, then we return to
the game for another 45 seconds. The second game is now finished. One
players declares he is sad and is going to the dormitory and they leave
without packing the stones away.
In a later scene that lasts over a minute: after the Japanese have
temporarily left the desert island, sister Angela says "I think I've
mastered this, this Japanese game. It's a bit like Draughts." She fetches
the board. Allison admits to having never played Draughts only Craps. She
offers to teach him and starts to set the white stones Draughts style,
explaining you simply have to capture each others men. He declares he is
not interested and she says she is therefore going to bed.
For further reference the go scenes start 47.5 and 76.75 minutes into
the film.
3) Dangerous moves
Year: 1984
Directed by: Richard Dembo
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Liv Ulmann,
Produced by: Arthur Cohn
Original music by: Gabriel Yared
Cinematography by: Raoul Coutard
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: M. Piccoli plays a Chess master, and to rest
sometimes he playes Go with his wife.
4) Pi
Year: 1998
Directed by: Darren Aronofask
Cast: Pamela Heart, Sean Guillette, Mark Margolis
Produced by: Tyler Brodie
Original music by: Clint Mansell
Cinematography by: Matthew Libatique
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: The main character plays Go, and a bit of Go
philosophy:
Max: "As the Go game progresses, the possibilities
become smaller, the game takes an pattern. ... Perhaps,
even if we are not sophisticated enough to realise it,
there is a pattern underlying every Go game."
Sol: "Max, that's insanity... You're losing it!"
5) Tokyo Rififi (it. Rififi a Tokyo)
Year: 1962
Directed by: Jacques Deray
Cast: Cast Keiko Kishi, Charles Vanel, Michel Vitold, Masao Oda, Eiji Okada
Produced by: Jacques Bar
Original music by: Georges Delure
Cinematography by: Tadashi Aramaki
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: In a brief scene we see the inside of a Tokyo Go
Club; full of smoke and of Go players.
6) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (it. Tartarughe Ninja III)
Year: 1993
Directed by: Stuart Gillard
Cast: Elias Koteas, Paige Turco, Stuart Wilson (II), Vivian Wu
Produced by: David Chan
Original music by: John Du Perez
Cinematography by: David Gurfinkel
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: The master of the turtles in a short scene plays go.
7) Heathers
Year: 1989
Directed by: Michael Lehmann
Cast: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk
Produced by: Denise Di Novi
Original music by: David Newman
Cinematography by: Francis Kenny
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: I am told that in a scene you can see a Goban.
8) Wild Palms
Year: 1993
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: James Belushi, Dana Delany, Robert Loggia
Produced by: Michael rauch
Original music by: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Cinematography by: Phedon Papamichael
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: A go board can be seen
9) Five fingers of death
Year: 19??
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Comment: Hong Kong film
10) Ninja, guerrieri di fuoco
Year: 19??
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Comment: Hong Kong film
At one point of this gruesome film one of the main
characters speaks with a Kung Fu master who is studing a game on the go board.
11) You Seng (Temptation of a Monk)
Year: 1993
Directed by: Clara Law
Cast:Joan Chen, Michael Lee, Lisa Lu
Produced by: Teddy Robin Kwan
Original music by: Tats Lau
Cinematography by: Andrew Lesnie
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: There are three 3 go scenes, one involving
throwing a board
12) Kwaidan
Year: 1964
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
Cast:Michiyo Aratama, Keiko Kishi, Rentaro Mikuni
Produced by: Shigeru Wakatsuki
Original music by: Toru Takemitsu
Cinematography by: Yoshio Miyajima
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: In one of the scenes the wife of the main character plays Go,
loses and storms out with the words "What a stupid game".
This is to illustrate the mean behaviour of the wife :)
13) Pillow Book
Year: 1996
Directed by: Peter Greenaway
Cast:Vivian Wu, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata
Produced by: Terry Glinwood
Original music by: Michael Nyman
Cinematography by: Sacha Vierny
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: One person drinks himself to death and dares to
put a whisky glass and some pills on a Go board!
14) Sanjuro
Year: 1962
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Cast:Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
Produced by: Ryuzo Kikushima
Original music by: Masaru Satô
Cinematography by: Fukuzo Koizumi, Takao Saitô
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: In a long sequence the main character rests on
a goban while others are rushing in and out.
15) Bakushu
Year: 1951
Directed by: Yasujiro Ozu
Cast:Chikage Awajima, Setsuko Hara
Produced by:
Original music by: Senji Ito
Cinematography by: Yuharu Atsuta
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: Yasujiro Ozu's typical (meaning outstanding)
family drama, known in the us as "early summer". The
one go scene is the head of the household, a doctor,
playing go with a friend, talking and smoking, on a
sunday in, of course, early summer.
16) The fate of Lee Khan (Ying chun ge zhi Fengbo)
Year: 1973
Directed by: King Hu
Cast: Wu Chiahsiang, Roy Chiao, Ying-chieh Han
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by: Tsing-Can Chung
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: The characters were playing a game in the woods
when they were attacked. They used the board and the
stones to mark the positions of the enemies and
coordinate the attack.
17) ?
Year: 19??
Directed by:
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Source: http://www.momii.com/zatoichi/
Comment: One scene: Zatoichi is giving a massage to
someone while a magistrate (?) and an oyabun are
playing go in the other room. The proverbial comment
is made (not quoted) -- a go player's concentration is
such that they will miss their own parents funeral
when playing go. Maybe someone else can provide the
correct saying from the movie or from elsewhere (I've
heard Japanese people refer to it before). A little
later ... after a little sword play the Go board is
found to be destroyed.
18) Zatoichi Seki-sho Yaburi (Zatoichi Demolishes the Barrier)
Year: 1964
Directed by: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Cast: Shintarô Katsu
Produced by:
Original music by: Taichirô Kosugi
Cinematography by: Shozo Honda
Source: http://www.momii.com/zatoichi/
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0164984
Comment: Two people, the Oyabun (boss) and his adviser, who takes White, are playing Go.
When Zatoichi enters to ask some kind of favour, the chief samurai arrives and he and Zatoichi
draw their swords and the blades pass, but apparently no contact is made.
Both sheath their swords, and the conversation continue. Zatoichi leaves and the Oyabun
and the adviser exchange some words. The adviser then plays his next move.
The board collapses, having been sliced through the middle, without any of
the stones being disturbed. All the stones pour onto the floor.
(Report by T Mark Hall)
19) ?
Year: 19??
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Source: http://www.momii.com/zatoichi/
Comment: Zato-ichi was a character in a number of
Japanese samurai films and he was called "the blind
swordsman". In one film, he is taken to speak to the
local lord, who is playing Go with his adviser. During
the conversation, the lord's chief swordsman
demonstrates his skill with the blade, always just
missing Zato-ichi by inches or perhaps millimetres.
Then Zato-ichi draws his own sword and makes a stroke
or two, but nothing appears to happen.
As he is getting up to go out he "accidentally" knocks
against the board with the butt end of the sheathed
sword. One leg of the goban then falls away and the
board tilts over, spilling all the stones onto the
floor.
20) Little Buddha (It. Il piccolo budda)
Year: 1993
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Roucheng Ling, Bridget Fonda
Produced by: Jeremy Thomas
Original music by: Ryuchi Sakamoto
Cinematography by: Vittorio Storaro
Source: http://us.imdb.com/
Comment: In one scene a Goban can be seen.
21) Brotherhood of the Rose
Year: 1989
Directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Connie Selleca, David Cole
Produced by: Marvin J. Chomsky
Original music by: Laurence Rosenthal
Cinematography by: James Bartle
Source: http://us.imdb.com/
Comment: A thriller. In a short scene the main character (Robert Mitchum)
is sitting in front of a Go board with stones on it.
22) Sex and Zen
Year: 1992
Directed by: Michael Mak
Cast: Lawrence Ng
Produced by: Virginia Lok
Original music by: Chan Wing Leung
Cinematography by: Peter Ngor
Source: http://us.imdb.com/
Comment: A Go board can sometimes be seen.
23) Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji)
Year: 1962
Directed by: Yasujiro Ozu
Cast: Shima Iwashita, Daisuke Katô, Kyôko Kishida,
Rynji Kita, Noriko Maki, Shinichirô Mikami
Produced by:
Original music by: Kojun Saito
Cinematography by: Yushun Atsuta
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: Unfortunately I do not know more, just that a Go
bord is shown.
24) Godzilla (Gojira)
Year: 1954
Directed by: Ishiro Honda
Cast: Akira Takarada, Momoko Kouchi, Akihiko Hirata,
Takashi Shimura, Fuyuki Murakami, Sachio Sakai,
Toranosuke Ogawa
Produced by: Tomoyuki Tanaka
Original music by: Akira Ifukube
Cinematography by: Masao Tamai
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: First Godzilla movie (a masterpiece!), in a
scene two sailors are playing Go.
25) Come see the paradise
Year: 1990
Directed by: Alan Parker
Cast: Dennis Quaid
Produced by: Robert F. Colesberry
Original music by: Randy Edelman
Cinematography by: Michael Seresin
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: In this movie, set in 1941, the character played by
Quaid enters a Japanese men's club in San Francisco where
two old men can be seen playing go.
26) Tokyo Joe
Year: 1949
Directed by: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Humphrey Bogart
Produced by: Henry S. Kesler
Original music by: George Antheil
Cinematography by: Charles Lawton Jr
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: In this movie, set in post-WW2 Tokyo, there are two
brief scenes in which two people are playing go. However,
from the disposition of the stones, they could be playing
go-moku.
27) Tui shou (Pushing Hands)
Year: 1992
Directed by: Ang Lee
Cast: Bin Chao, Victor Chan,
Produced by: Ted Hope
Original music by: Xiao-Song Qu
Cinematography by: Jong Lin
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: There is a scene where the father and son are playing
Go and the son slaps a stone down (like a surprise checkmate)
and captures a big group.
28) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Year: 2000
Directed by: Ang Lee
Cast: Yun-Far Chow, Michelle Yeoh
Produced by: Po Chu Chui
Original music by: Tan Dum
Cinematography by: Peter Pau
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: During one of the earlier sscenes, the two female lead
characters are sitting together, and a decorated black go table
can be seen in the background. It has two black bowls on it,
with flowers painted on the sides. From what you could see of
the surface, it looked dark with white lines. They don't use
it to play go, though..
29) Hitman (Sat sau ji wong)
Year: 1998
Directed by: Wei Tung
Cast: Jet Li, Simon Yam
Produced by: Gordon Chan
Original music by: T. Two
Cinematography by: Arthur Wong
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: In the final fight is staged in a Japanese style room
where there is a Go board, with stones on the top. In the
fight, the board is hurled across the room.
30) You Seng (Temptation of a Monk)
Year: 1993
Directed by: Clara Law
Cast: Wu Hsin-kuo, Zhang Fengyi, Joan Chen
Produced by: Teddy Robin Kwan
Original music by: Tats Lau
Cinematography by: Andrew Lesnie
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: A Hong Kong movie. In a scene a man is seen studying
moves (replaying a game?) on a Go board.
31) Genalogie d'une crime (in English Genealogies of a Crime)
Year: 1997
Directed by: Raul Ruiz
Cast: Cathrine Deneuve
Produced by: Paul Branco
Original music by: Jorge Arrigada
Cinematography by: Stefan Ivanov
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: A French film. I have been told that Go can be seen in
this film.
32) Bis ans Ende der Welt (Until the end of the world)
Year: 1991
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Cast: Pietro Falcone, William Hurt, Sam Niell
Produced by: Paulo Branco
Original music by: Graeme Revell
Cinematography by: Robby Muller
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: In one scene a Go board can be seen.
33) Qi Yuan--Chun Qiu (Go Courtyard--Fall, Spring).
Year:
Directed by:
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Comment: This movie has more go in it than possibly any other!
It is a 'bowl-boiler' Chinese-made-for-TV go movie (four hours,
five cassettes). The movie takes place in a palace during the
Sung Dynasty period c. 1100 A.D. and is based on fact in a
loose way. In the southern Manchurian kingdom of Liao, everyone
in the court is mad about Go and in the courtyard there is a Go
school. A princess is a top player. The top player in the Sung
court is a man (a 'prince'?) who is looking for someone to play
(with?) and ends up, so to say, 'courting' the princess. I think
you get the point. There is an ongoing palace coup plot, of
course, and the servant girl of the princess is forced to play
Go for her life and... I won't tell you the ending.
(Report by Peter Shotwell)
34) M. Butterfly
Year: 1993
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Cast: Jeremy Irons, John Leone
Produced by: David Henry Hwand
Original music by: Howard Shore
Cinematography by: Peter Suschitzky
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: There is a brief scene of people playing go in the movie.
It is about a male Chinese opera star who had a long term affair
with a European male diplomat who did not discover the opera singer
was a man throughout the entire affair. The scene occurs after the
cultural revolution when many peasants were living in the house
that formerly belonged to a wealthy family. In the courtyard of
the house the are two people seated at a Go board. It seems odd
at the time since Go itself was suppressed during the cultural
revolution, but that's Hollywood.
(Comment by: Keith Crews)
35) A Beautiful Mind
Year: 2001
Directed by: Ron Howard
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris
Produced by: Brian Grazer
Original music by: James Horner
Cinematography by: Roger Deakins
Source: http://us.imdb.com/
Comment: A Beautiful Mind: A Flawed Game, A Lost
Dango and Love Triumphant, about the life of AGA
Charter Member Dr. John Forbes
Nash, Jr. While Go isn't a key part of the movie,
- reports Joe Hevey -, the first scene with it is
very interesting because Nash, with his
mathematical, calculating, computer-like mind
loses the game, proclaiming, “The game is flawed!
This clearly demonstrates that go is of a
different logic than most assume, and why man is
superior to machine in its play”.
David Sparr adds that "the board surface is only
shown in extreme close-up, so it is hard to evaluate if the game is
being played on a high level. Although from what one can see, there
seem to be an awful lot of intertwining eyeless strings.
The John Nash character actually loses the game when a large dango
is captured and removed -- after which he throws a tantrum claiming
the game is obviously flawed, since he had the first move and his
play was 'perfect'.
I suspect this was a non-Go playing screenwriter's fictional
conceit /artistic license - as it is hard to imagine a mathematical
genius who plays Go on any kind of a reasonable level having such
a misguided analysis."
(Report from the AGA e-Journal)
36) Chushingura - Hana no maki yuki no maki
aka "The Loyal 47 Retainers", aka "The 47 Faithful Samurai" aka "The 47 Ronin"
Year: 1962
Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast:
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055850/
Comment: the film is about 3-1/2 hours long. At 3 hours, one of the bad guys is
trapped and he tosses a go board at his attacker, then a bowl of white stones. There is one scene
toward the end of the climactic fight where a trapped samurai picks up a full size floor model
goban and hurls it at his attacker who deflects it with a swipe of his sword. The victim then hurls
a bowl of white stones at him with no effect at all. The stones fly like snow flakes.
Two of the attacker's buddies crash in and that's all for the victim.
This scene is depicted on numerous woodblock prints. The story is a cherished legend and
is one of the more popular kabuki stories.
(Report by David Bogie)
37) So Close (Chik yeung tin sai)
Year: 2002
Directed by: Corey Yuen
Cast:
Produced by: Po Chu Chui
Original music by: Sam Kao
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300620/
Comment: In a very short scene two guards are shown playing Go on a mega screen inside a very high
tech building
38) Hero (Ying Xiong)
Year: 2002
Directed by: Yimou Zhang
Cast:
Produced by:
Original music by: Dun Tan
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299977/
Comment: The main character fights against a bad guy and plays on a go board over which it rains
and while playing the stones not on the lines but inside the squares
(Sent by C. Garbarini)
39) Yapian zhanzheng (The Opium War)
Year: 1997
Directed by: Jin Xie
Cast: Bao Guoan, Debra Beaumont
Produced by:
Original music by: Fuzai Jin
Cinematography by: Yong Hou
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120538
Comment: In the film Lin Xezu (Bao Guoan) one of the main characters is playing GO in a pavilion
when he is informed about the arrival of the British fleet. Being enraged about it he sweeps away
the stones from the board with his hand.
It shows nicely that high ranking Mandarins were playing GO. The film is interesting, especially
as it shows the Opium War period seen from the Chinese side. As a consequence of the Chinese defeat,
Hong Kong became a British colony.
(By EG)
40) Ying chun ge zhi Fengbo (Fate of Lee Khan)
Year: 1973
Directed by:
Cast: Ying Bai, Wu Chia Hsiang
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by: Tsing-Can Chun
Source: http://amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0070942/*ASIN=B000009PPH
Comment: This web site says that in this film there is one or more scenes
with Go inside reference
41) Restless
Year:2001
Directed by: Jule Gilfillan
Cast: Catherine Kellner, Elizabeth Sung
Produced by:
Original music by: Laura Karpman
Cinematography by: Shu Yang
Source: http://amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0183700/*ASIN=B00005T307
Comment: This web site says that in this film there is one or more scenes
with Go inside reference
42) Electra
Year: 2005
Directed by: Rob Bowman
Cast: Jennifer Garner
Produced by: Avi Arad
Original music by: Christophe Beck
Cinematography by: Bill Roe
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357277
Comment: A go board can be seen briefly in a scene of the film.
43) Volcano High
Year: 2001
Directed by: Tae-gyun Kim
Cast: Hyuk Jang, Min-a Shin, Su-ro Kim
Produced by: Seoung-Jae Cha
Original music by: Gary G-Wiz
Cinematography by: Yeong-taek Choi
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301429
Comment: In a long scene two teachers play Go together. It is quite a funny scene, at one point one teacher
tries to move the stones with his will-power!
44) Long xing tian xia (The Master)
Year: 1989
Directed by: Tsui Hark
Cast: Jet Li
Produced by: Anthony Chow
Original music by: Yee Tat Lam
Cinematography by: Henry Chan
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097775
Comment: I have been told that somewhere in the film you see a Go board.
45) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Year: 1985
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Cast: Ken Ogata
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089603
Comment: Anderson Mills writes:"I had finished watching the beautiful film 'Mishima'
and decided to watch the deleted scene in the "Special Features" section of the DVD.
The scene shows the main character of Yukio Mishima's 'Temple of the Golden
Pavillion' talking with his meditation master while the master is studying a Go board.
One shot in the scene is of nothing but the board. In order to exagerate the sense of
perspective, the Go board appears to be trapezoidally shaped and different sized stones
are used across the board (larger stones are nearer). Since this portion of the film is
purportedly lifted from Yukio Mishima's novel, I am led to believe that the scene is probably
written in the novel, but I can't verify that. The director's comments suggest that he regretted
cutting the scene, but it caused some introductory material in the film to be "disproportionately long."
(From the AMERICAN GO E-JOURNAL)
46) Genji monogatari
Year: 1951
Directed by: Kozaburo Yoshimura
Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Michiyo Kogure
Produced by: Masaichi Nagata
Original music by: Akira Ifukube
Cinematography by: Kôhei Sugiyama
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043580
Comment: There is a short sequence were 2 ladies of the imperial court finish counting a game.
47) Jing wu ying xiong (Fist of Legends)
Year: 1994
Directed by: Gordon Chan
Cast: Jet Li, Siu-hou Chin
Produced by: Jet Li
Original music by: Stephen Edwards
Cinematography by: Derek Wan
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043580
Comment: It contains a scene where a military bigwig is playing go with one of his advisors.
The subtitles refer to it as chess, but it is definitely go.
(Report by Ben Shoemaker)
48) Restless
Year: 1998
Directed by: Jule Gilfillian
Cast: Catherine Kellner
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0183700/*ASIN=B00005T307
Comment: Arrow Features, 98 minutes.
Leah is adrift, restless. Landing in Beijing after a string of flights from failed romances,
she falls in with other expatriates. A chance encounter with a young weiqi master she saw on TV
leads to . . . well, let's stop there and not spoil it. Let's just say that a few twists and
subplots later, we learn what Dorothy . . . er, Leah is really looking for. (Hint: There's no
place like it.) Along the way, we see weiqi on TV, on the street, in a club, at home. On TV,
Master Sun (played by Asian Jimmy Smits clone Geng Li) teaches how to "attack from a distance.
" With an inevitability that Sidney Sheldon would love, the insight Leah gains enables her to
turn the tables on the cad who jilted her, and jilt him right back. Catherine Kellner plays Leah
with Sarah Jessica Parker-like insouciance. "Restless" is the first English-language film made
in modern Beijing, and the first US-China cooperative filmmaking venture. Don't look for any
scathing indictments here, just a basically lighthearted look at some young people falling in
and out of love in China while trying to "find" themselves. Watch for a nice subplot about Leah's
Asian-American friend, a hunky bimbo delivering his grandfather's ashes who gets more than he
bargained for in return. It's a pleasure to see weiqi in an attractive setting, even without so
much as a brief reference to the actual nature of the game. (An uninformed viewer could leave
with the impression that weiqi is a variation of chess," as The New York Times mistakenly
reported.) Pi, the recent cult hit in which the monomaniacal main man discovers the secret of
the universe on the go board, gave the game a lot of visibility, but didn't leave people wanting
to learn more about it. Restless, on the other hand, is a film you can recommend to your friends
on its merits, and after they see it they may well ask you some interesting questions about weiqi.
(Reviewed by Roy Laird)
49) Zatôichi abare-himatsuri (At the Fire Festival)
Year: 1970
Directed by: Kenji Misumi, Nakadai Tatsuya
Cast: Shintarô Katsu
Produced by: Shintarô Katsu
Original music by: Isao Tomita
Cinematography by: Kazuo Miyagawa
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164982
Comment: There is a scene where Zatoichi plays the Big Boss, who is also blind, a game of Go.
They tell where the moves have been played by feel and sound and the boss plays one move to flick a Black
stone into Zatoichi's face and Zatoichi then slides a stone to knock the last White move off the board.
(Report by T Mark Hall)
50) Red Corner
Year: 1997
Directed by: Jon Avnet
Cast: Richard Gere, Ling Bai
Produced by: Jon Avnet
Original music by: Thomas Newman
Cinematography by: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119994/
Comment: A thriller. In a short scene while the main character is interrogated two guards in the
background are playing Go
(Report by Stefano Carbone)
51) Deadful Melody (Deadful Melody)
Year: 1993
Directed by: Min Kun Ng
Cast: Brigitte Lin, Biao Yuen
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107428
Comment: Two characters play while speaking to each other, at one point one character crushes
a stone in his hand.
Television
A) Navarro (it. Il commissario navarro)
Year: 1989
Directed by:
Cast: Roger Hanin, Sam Karmann
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: In one episode a Go player kills all others to
win a tournament
B) JAG 2.10 (Ep. "The Game of Go")
Year: 1995
Directed by:
Cast: David James Elliott, Catherine Bell, John M. Jackson
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://us.imdb.com
www.tvtome.com
Comment: The main character plays with a South American
drug or arms dealer. However, they play "in" the
squares (sic).
C) La Femme Nikita
Year: 1997
Directed by: Various
Cast: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis
Produced by: Jay Firestone
Original music by: Sean Callery
Cinematography by: Danny Nowak
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: In one episode it is explained how Go is very
popular among their super spy group. They show a Go
board that uses Triangular (Yuck) stone and the board
is a glass see through table with black lines painted
on it. Really weird.
D) Diagnosis Murder
Year: 1993
Directed by: Various
Cast: Dick van Dyke, Barry van dyke, Victoria Rowell
Produced by: Jacqueline Blain
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: Starring Dick van Dyke. In this episode [maybe
Jan 1999??] Dyke is entrusted to protect one of his
patients from an assasin [and Go player]. The good
doctor [Dyke] learns how to play Go so he can "get
into the mind" of this would-be assassin and save his
patient. After a few days of study...he finally plays
the Go master/assassin [who is caucasion, by the way]
and conceeds..." I'll never master this game, but I
have learned a few things about you by the way you
play it."
E) Ally McBeal (Episode 2.37 Pyramids of the Nile)
Year: 1997
Directed by: Various
Cast: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith,
Produced by: Robert Breech
Original music by: Danny Lux
Cinematography by: Billy Dickson
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: There is a scene of two characters playing Go.
The cool thing was that it wasn't just a "background"
scene, the scene starts with a birds-eye view of the
game.
The Go game wasn't much of a game but at least the
position was legal - at least until the bloke was put
off his game by the character played by Lucy Liu talking
dirty to him!
(Report by Tony Atkins)
F) Marco Polo
Year: 1982
Directed by: Giuliano Montaldo
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Mario Adorf, Anne Bancroft
Produced by: Vincenzo Labella
Original music by: Ennio Morricone
Cinematography by:
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: In a scene in the imperial palace you see a go
board in the distance.
G) Andromeda (Episode: Double Helix)
Year: 2000
Directed by: Various
Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Lexa Doig
Produced by: Majel Barrett
Original music by: Alex Lifeson
Cinematography by: Gordon Verheul
Source: http://us.imdb.com,
http://www.andromedatv.com/episodes/season1/epi_105.html
Comment: The main character Cpt. Dylan Hunt (the hero)
playing 3D go (3 9x9 Go boards stacked on top of each
other just like the 3D chess they used to play on Star
Trek) with his second in command, but I'm afraid that
Kevin Sorbo (the actor playing the Captin) just
doesn't know how to hold a go stone! He even says "I
have played Go with you for 3 years now...".
There are also a couple of close-ups of a white stone
and they show the actors making moves. No positions
can be seen clearly, but what can be seen doesn't look
too much like a real go position.
Perhaps 3D Go will become commonplace in SciFi of the
XXI Century?
H) 24 (Episode: 3.15)
Year: 2003
Directed by: Various
Cast: Jack Bauer,
Produced by: Remi Aubuchon
Original music by: Sean Callery
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285331
Comment: You can see briefly people playing go in some establishment
A bit later Jack Bauer actually scatters some go stones on a table.
(Report by Warp)
I) Enterprise (Episode: 2.48) "Cogenitor"
Year: 2003
Directed by: LeVar Burton
Cast: Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock
Produced by: Rick Berman
Original music by: Paul Baillargeon
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/ENT/episode/128560.html
Comment: The Enterprise's engineer Charles "Trip" Tucker III (played by Connor Trinneer)
teaches Go to a Vissian cogenator (third gender being) (played by Becky Wahstrom) seated
at a goban on the floor of his cabin. Trip captures a white stone and the Vissian takes a
clearly long dead black stone off of the board and asks if it means it has won. Trip reveals
that in two years of playing of playing this (Go is not named) that was the first time he was beaten.
(Report by Tony Atkins)
J) Chessgame
Year: 1983
Directed by: William Brayne
Cast: Terence Stamp
Produced by: Richard Everitt
Original music by: Christopher Gunning
Cinematography by: Doug Hallows
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395382
Comment: Terence (Terrance) Stamp stars as a spy master. He had a board on his office desk and would
occasionally place a stone for dramatic effect.
Films on / about Go
1) Go (Japanese embassy)
Year: 1960 (circa)
Directed by:
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source:
Comment: An educational film about Go, quite old but
still worthwhile to see
2) Go basics (Ing foundation)
Year:
Directed by:
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source:
Comment:
3) Go more than a game
Year:
Directed by:
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source:
Comment: Made by Chip Taylor.
4) Le jeux de Go (The game of Go)
Year: 1990 (circa)
Directed by:
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source:
Comment: t's made by Fred Donzet and lasts 14 minutes.
5) Go (American Go Association)
Year:
Directed by:
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.usgo.org/org/hitachi.html
Comment:
6) Go lessons (Italian Go Federation)
Year: 1999
Directed by: Paolo Montrasio
Produced by: FIGG (Federazione Italiana Giuoco Go)
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.freespeech.org/figg/
Comment: Short streamline films with lessons for beginners,
the set will be completed in 2000 and will consist of
several parts ranging from 5' to 10'
7) AGA Summer Camp
Year: 1999
Directed by: Jeff Shaevel
Produced by: Mopac Media for the American Go Association
Original music by: Muhoberac/Bahler/Zuker and
Brown/Bahler/Muhoberac/Zuker
Cinematography by: Kevin Triplett
Source: Mopac Media
Comment: High energy video promoting the AGA Summer Go Camp, a
week-long event for children 5 to 17 years old that features
professional instruction, tournament games and typical summer
camp activities. The video is 7 minutes long with images taken
at the camp and voice over by a "camper" reading her letter
to "Mom and Dad" -- features sound bites from campers and
counselors sprinkled throughout the video.
8) Hitachi & the AGA
Year: 1999
Directed by:
Produced by: Mopac Media for the American Go Association
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: Mopac Media
Comment: Video made for the promotion of Go
9) Ing & the AGA
Year: 1999
Directed by:
Produced by: Mopac Media for the American Go Association
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: Mopac Media
Comment: Video made for the promotion of Go
10) U.S. Go Congress
Year: 2000
Directed by:
Produced by: Mopac Media for the American Go Association
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: Mopac Media
Comment: Video made for the promotion of Go
11) EGF Go Congress Zagreb
Year: 2002
Directed by: Zoran Mutabzia (?)
Produced by: Croatian IGo Alliance
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.european-go.org/egc2002
Comment: We have compiled pictures, video clips and tournament results from Zagreb's 2002 EGC
on CD-ROM and 2-hours VHS video tape.
Anime
A) Top o Nerae! (Gunbuster)
Year: 1988
Directed by: Hideaki Anno
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098492
Comment: In a scene one of the female characters speaks
with her instructor who is playing alone on what seems
as a traditional goban. But on the side there is an
electronic device, so perhaps the goban is a computer
and he is playing against it?
B) Dragon Ball
Year: 1985
Directed by: Akira Toriyama
Produced by:
Original music by: Shunsuke Kikuchi
Cinematography by:
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: Scenes with Go
C) Dr.Slump (Arale)
Year: 1997
Directed by: Akira Toriyama
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: Scenes with Go
D) Ranma 1/2 - “Big Trouble in Nekonron”
Year: 1989
Directed by: Shuji Iuchi
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://us.imdb.com
Comment: Written and drawn by Rumiko Takahashi. From a
screenplay by Iuchi, Shigeru Yanagawa, and Ryoto
Yamaguchi. The english translation is published by
Viz Video.
E) The Tale of Genji
Year: 1987
Directed by:
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source:
Comment: There's at least one go scene in an animated adaptation.
The re is an English subtitled version by central park media
released in the U.S. in 1995.
F) Hikaru no Go
Year: 2001
Directed by:
Produced by: TV Tokyo
Original Music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: The best selling manga (Japanese-style comic book)
series by Hotta Yumi (writer) and Obata Takeshi (artist)
Comment: This animated series began on TV Tokyo on October
10, 2001 and is still on as this is being written.
Go consultant: Umezawa Yukari, 2-Dan Pro (Nihon Kiin)
Hikaru no Go won the Excellent Work Award at the Tokyo International Animation Fair 2001
Reports of episodes
G) Gunparade March
Year: 2003
Directed by: J. C. Staff
Produced by:
Original music by: Kenjii Kawai
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376397/
Comment: In episode three for a brief moment two students are seen playing on a go board.
H) Rurôni Kenshin (Samurai X)
Year: 1999
Directed by: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Produced by:
Original music by: Taku Iwasaki
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203082
Comment: This historical anime OVA series (as opposed to the TV series or the movie of the same name)
shows traditional boards in the background.
In the first episode, one of the main characters plotting the downfall of the shogunate is seen playing Go
with a woman, just before someone comes in and informs him some loyalists have discovered a plot meeting
and are assassinating revolutionaries
(Report by Thor)
I) Otogi Zoshi (Ep. 3)
Year: 2004
Directed by: Mizuho Nishikubo
Produced by:
Original music by: Hideki Taniuchi
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433504
Comment: In a very brief scene (2-3 seconds) at the beginning the camera shows an
ancient painting, on it at the end two people are shown playing Go.
J) Case Closed (Meitantei Conan) (Ep. ?)
Year: 1996
Directed by: Mike McFarland
Produced by:
Original music by: Katsuo Ono
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131179
Comment: In one episode the solution to an enigma is found "written" on a Go board
(Report by: Linda Poletti)
Advertising / Commercials
1) ?
Year: 199?
Directed by:
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source:
Comment: A Chinese spot of a liquor, in which after drinking the
main character plays a move to show "spirit".
2) Promo for the Channel
Year: 2003
Directed by:
Produced by: CCNTV
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: Comment: On CCNTV9 (the English language edition of the Chinese state TV channel).
In a brief "jingle" a Go board is seen many times. (11 march 2003 roughly at 7.30am)
Various
A) The current film Topsy Turvy (about the famous Operetta authors
Gilbert and Sullyvan), which won two Oscars, briefly features not
Go, but a Go player from our London clubs. He is Tokumi Ayzen and
he is the Japanese calligrapher inside the Liberty's exhibition.
He speaks just one line (in Japanese: I don't understand English).
Ayzen-san is 3-dan. He is a well known artist by profession.
(eport by John Fairbairn)
B) There was also an actor called Michael Culver who used to frequent
the London club a few years ago. He featured in sone films too. He
was 2-dan, as I recall. He appeared in at least one of the first
Star Wars films as an Empire Captain or Admiral. He has also
appeared in many British TV productions. In one BBC series called
Squadron, he played an RAF officer. In one episode, where he had to
carry a book around, he made sure that he carried a copy of one of
the Ishida Dictionaries
(Report by T. Mark Hall)
C) Go got a bit more national exposure June 5th 2002 on Jeopardy, reports
the ever-vigilant Fred and Ginnie at the Fun Coast Go Club in Daytona
Beach, FL. "Under the category 'Two Letter Words,' they showed a short video
clip of a pair on the staff 'playing' Go, described as a Japanese game, which was
easily answered by one of the contestants. The brief view of the game was
enough to determine that it wasn't a real game played, merely a few formations of stones."
(From the American Go Journal)
D) On BBC news 31 July 2002: A story about Hikaru no Go craze among Japanese.
E) In a news programme on Italian State TV (third channel, 2002):
Mediamente (RAI3 8:35-9:05) inside a news about strategy games on internet
a brief mention about Go.
Yahoo games has been briefly shown, and a Go board with some stones on it.
Please send your contributions to: Gionata Soletti
[updated 13th April 2005]
Comment: A Beautiful Mind: A Flawed Game, A Lost
Dango and Love Triumphant, about the life of AGA
Charter Member Dr. John Forbes
Nash, Jr. While Go isn't a key part of the movie,
- reports Joe Hevey -, the first scene with it is
very interesting because Nash, with his
mathematical, calculating, computer-like mind
loses the game, proclaiming, “The game is flawed!
This clearly demonstrates that go is of a
different logic than most assume, and why man is
superior to machine in its play”.
David Sparr adds that "the board surface is only
shown in extreme close-up, so it is hard to evaluate if the game is
being played on a high level. Although from what one can see, there
seem to be an awful lot of intertwining eyeless strings.
The John Nash character actually loses the game when a large dango
is captured and removed -- after which he throws a tantrum claiming
the game is obviously flawed, since he had the first move and his
play was 'perfect'.
I suspect this was a non-Go playing screenwriter's fictional
conceit /artistic license - as it is hard to imagine a mathematical
genius who plays Go on any kind of a reasonable level having such
a misguided analysis."
(Report from the AGA e-Journal)
36) Chushingura - Hana no maki yuki no maki
aka "The Loyal 47 Retainers", aka "The 47 Faithful Samurai" aka "The 47 Ronin"
Year: 1962
Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast:
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055850/
Comment: the film is about 3-1/2 hours long. At 3 hours, one of the bad guys is
trapped and he tosses a go board at his attacker, then a bowl of white stones. There is one scene
toward the end of the climactic fight where a trapped samurai picks up a full size floor model
goban and hurls it at his attacker who deflects it with a swipe of his sword. The victim then hurls
a bowl of white stones at him with no effect at all. The stones fly like snow flakes.
Two of the attacker's buddies crash in and that's all for the victim.
This scene is depicted on numerous woodblock prints. The story is a cherished legend and
is one of the more popular kabuki stories.
(Report by David Bogie)
37) So Close (Chik yeung tin sai)
Year: 2002
Directed by: Corey Yuen
Cast:
Produced by: Po Chu Chui
Original music by: Sam Kao
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300620/
Comment: In a very short scene two guards are shown playing Go on a mega screen inside a very high
tech building
38) Hero (Ying Xiong)
Year: 2002
Directed by: Yimou Zhang
Cast:
Produced by:
Original music by: Dun Tan
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299977/
Comment: The main character fights against a bad guy and plays on a go board over which it rains
and while playing the stones not on the lines but inside the squares
(Sent by C. Garbarini)
39) Yapian zhanzheng (The Opium War)
Year: 1997
Directed by: Jin Xie
Cast: Bao Guoan, Debra Beaumont
Produced by:
Original music by: Fuzai Jin
Cinematography by: Yong Hou
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120538
Comment: In the film Lin Xezu (Bao Guoan) one of the main characters is playing GO in a pavilion
when he is informed about the arrival of the British fleet. Being enraged about it he sweeps away
the stones from the board with his hand.
It shows nicely that high ranking Mandarins were playing GO. The film is interesting, especially
as it shows the Opium War period seen from the Chinese side. As a consequence of the Chinese defeat,
Hong Kong became a British colony.
(By EG)
40) Ying chun ge zhi Fengbo (Fate of Lee Khan)
Year: 1973
Directed by:
Cast: Ying Bai, Wu Chia Hsiang
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by: Tsing-Can Chun
Source: http://amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0070942/*ASIN=B000009PPH
Comment: This web site says that in this film there is one or more scenes
with Go inside reference
41) Restless
Year:2001
Directed by: Jule Gilfillan
Cast: Catherine Kellner, Elizabeth Sung
Produced by:
Original music by: Laura Karpman
Cinematography by: Shu Yang
Source: http://amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0183700/*ASIN=B00005T307
Comment: This web site says that in this film there is one or more scenes
with Go inside reference
42) Electra
Year: 2005
Directed by: Rob Bowman
Cast: Jennifer Garner
Produced by: Avi Arad
Original music by: Christophe Beck
Cinematography by: Bill Roe
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357277
Comment: A go board can be seen briefly in a scene of the film.
43) Volcano High
Year: 2001
Directed by: Tae-gyun Kim
Cast: Hyuk Jang, Min-a Shin, Su-ro Kim
Produced by: Seoung-Jae Cha
Original music by: Gary G-Wiz
Cinematography by: Yeong-taek Choi
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301429
Comment: In a long scene two teachers play Go together. It is quite a funny scene, at one point one teacher
tries to move the stones with his will-power!
44) Long xing tian xia (The Master)
Year: 1989
Directed by: Tsui Hark
Cast: Jet Li
Produced by: Anthony Chow
Original music by: Yee Tat Lam
Cinematography by: Henry Chan
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097775
Comment: I have been told that somewhere in the film you see a Go board.
45) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Year: 1985
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Cast: Ken Ogata
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089603
Comment: Anderson Mills writes:"I had finished watching the beautiful film 'Mishima'
and decided to watch the deleted scene in the "Special Features" section of the DVD.
The scene shows the main character of Yukio Mishima's 'Temple of the Golden
Pavillion' talking with his meditation master while the master is studying a Go board.
One shot in the scene is of nothing but the board. In order to exagerate the sense of
perspective, the Go board appears to be trapezoidally shaped and different sized stones
are used across the board (larger stones are nearer). Since this portion of the film is
purportedly lifted from Yukio Mishima's novel, I am led to believe that the scene is probably
written in the novel, but I can't verify that. The director's comments suggest that he regretted
cutting the scene, but it caused some introductory material in the film to be "disproportionately long."
(From the AMERICAN GO E-JOURNAL)
46) Genji monogatari
Year: 1951
Directed by: Kozaburo Yoshimura
Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Michiyo Kogure
Produced by: Masaichi Nagata
Original music by: Akira Ifukube
Cinematography by: Kôhei Sugiyama
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043580
Comment: There is a short sequence were 2 ladies of the imperial court finish counting a game.
47) Jing wu ying xiong (Fist of Legends)
Year: 1994
Directed by: Gordon Chan
Cast: Jet Li, Siu-hou Chin
Produced by: Jet Li
Original music by: Stephen Edwards
Cinematography by: Derek Wan
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043580
Comment: It contains a scene where a military bigwig is playing go with one of his advisors.
The subtitles refer to it as chess, but it is definitely go.
(Report by Ben Shoemaker)
48) Restless
Year: 1998
Directed by: Jule Gilfillian
Cast: Catherine Kellner
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0183700/*ASIN=B00005T307
Comment: Arrow Features, 98 minutes.
Leah is adrift, restless. Landing in Beijing after a string of flights from failed romances,
she falls in with other expatriates. A chance encounter with a young weiqi master she saw on TV
leads to . . . well, let's stop there and not spoil it. Let's just say that a few twists and
subplots later, we learn what Dorothy . . . er, Leah is really looking for. (Hint: There's no
place like it.) Along the way, we see weiqi on TV, on the street, in a club, at home. On TV,
Master Sun (played by Asian Jimmy Smits clone Geng Li) teaches how to "attack from a distance.
" With an inevitability that Sidney Sheldon would love, the insight Leah gains enables her to
turn the tables on the cad who jilted her, and jilt him right back. Catherine Kellner plays Leah
with Sarah Jessica Parker-like insouciance. "Restless" is the first English-language film made
in modern Beijing, and the first US-China cooperative filmmaking venture. Don't look for any
scathing indictments here, just a basically lighthearted look at some young people falling in
and out of love in China while trying to "find" themselves. Watch for a nice subplot about Leah's
Asian-American friend, a hunky bimbo delivering his grandfather's ashes who gets more than he
bargained for in return. It's a pleasure to see weiqi in an attractive setting, even without so
much as a brief reference to the actual nature of the game. (An uninformed viewer could leave
with the impression that weiqi is a variation of chess," as The New York Times mistakenly
reported.) Pi, the recent cult hit in which the monomaniacal main man discovers the secret of
the universe on the go board, gave the game a lot of visibility, but didn't leave people wanting
to learn more about it. Restless, on the other hand, is a film you can recommend to your friends
on its merits, and after they see it they may well ask you some interesting questions about weiqi.
(Reviewed by Roy Laird)
49) Zatôichi abare-himatsuri (At the Fire Festival)
Year: 1970
Directed by: Kenji Misumi, Nakadai Tatsuya
Cast: Shintarô Katsu
Produced by: Shintarô Katsu
Original music by: Isao Tomita
Cinematography by: Kazuo Miyagawa
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164982
Comment: There is a scene where Zatoichi plays the Big Boss, who is also blind, a game of Go.
They tell where the moves have been played by feel and sound and the boss plays one move to flick a Black
stone into Zatoichi's face and Zatoichi then slides a stone to knock the last White move off the board.
(Report by T Mark Hall)
50) Red Corner
Year: 1997
Directed by: Jon Avnet
Cast: Richard Gere, Ling Bai
Produced by: Jon Avnet
Original music by: Thomas Newman
Cinematography by: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119994/
Comment: A thriller. In a short scene while the main character is interrogated two guards in the
background are playing Go
(Report by Stefano Carbone)
51) Deadful Melody (Deadful Melody)
Year: 1993
Directed by: Min Kun Ng
Cast: Brigitte Lin, Biao Yuen
Produced by:
Original music by:
Cinematography by:
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107428
Comment: Two characters play while speaking to each other, at one point one character crushes
a stone in his hand.
