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The following movies make a reference to the game of Go.

  • recent: movie about Go Seigen, [ext] shot in China 2002 with his approval. Title: 棋圣 吴清源 (translation: Kisei Go Seigen)
  • 2003: Onmyoji 2 Abe no Seimei is playing a Shikigami in the form of his friend Minamoto no Hiromasa as a monk.
  • 2002: Hero by Zhang Yimou
  • 2001: A Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard
  • 1997: Pi by Darren Aronofsky
  • 1989: [ext] Heathers, a Goban is seen in Wynona Rider's character's bedroom.
  • 1998: [ext] Restless Catherine Kellner plays Leah. 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.
  • 1983: The GO Masters by Sun Dao-Lin
  • 1982: Mikan no Taikyoku "The Go Masters" by Ji-shun Duan
  • 1957 Heaven Knows Mr. Allison by John Huston: Deborah Kerr plays a proper, devoted, caring nun and Robert Mitchum plays an unsophisticated, uneducated, somewhat crude, but kind-hearted Marine. They end up stranded together on an island overrun by the Japanese during World War 2. Trying to steal food, Mitchum is forced to wait through a game of go. Great!
  • 1954: Godzilla: a few seconds of a go scene somewhere in the first five minutes.

1962: "Hatari" ([ext] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056059/) which some might believe could be related to go (especially with title uttered in my French accent). Interestingly, "hatari" means "danger" in Swahili, so a protolinguistic connection with Japanese (see [ext] http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/False%20cognate)?. ilanpi

See also an [ext] Internet Go Filmography.



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