The Go Masters

The Go Masters (1982)

Drama

Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely described as an Asian version of chess). It soon becomes evident that the Chinese master's son is the most talented player that the Japanese master has ever encountered, and he convinces the boy's father to let him bring the child back to Japan to train him as a professional Go player. Years pass, and as the young Chinese master grows to maturity in Japan, the Japanese invasion of China forces him to choose between his triumphant career and his loyalty to his native country. His decision is complicated by his marriage to the daughter of the Japanese master, with whom he has produced a child. His choice will profoundly alter the lives of two families. Their saga serves as a reflection of the tragic relations between their two great countries, and the possibility of reconciliation and healing.

Directors: Duan Jishun, Junya Satō.
Writers: Tetsurô Abe, Fumio Kōnami, Yasuko Ōno, Li Hong-zhou, Ge Tang-tong.

Casts

	Rentaro Mikuni as 松波麟作
	Misako Konno as 巴
	Daolin Sun as 况易山
	Shen Guanchu as 况阿明
	Shen Danping as 阿惠
	Mayumi Ogawa as 杨夫人
	Huang Zongying as 婉怡
	Keiko Matsuzaka as 立花
	Du Peng as 关小舟
	Yu Shaokang as 张医生
	Yoshiko Mita as 忍
	Nobuko Otowa as
	Liu Xin as 小阿惠
	Hideji Ōtaki as
	Zhang Liwei as 留学生

Crew