The Go Masters

The first Chinese-Japanese coproduction and the most widely seen Asian film on that continent, THE GO-MASTERS chronicles, in epic scale, 32 years in the lives of Kuang Yi-shan (Sun Dao-lin) of China and Rinsaku Matsunami (Rentaro Mikuni) of Japan. Both men are masters of Go, an ancient and extremely complex, chesslike game that involves military-style strategies and the conquering of territories. The film opens in 1946, revealing through flashbacks that Kuang sent his son to study Go in Japan under Rinsaku. The boy eventually became the national champion, wed his tutor's daughter, and with the start of WWII was pressured into declaring his allegiance to Japan. Afte...