Internet Go Filmography
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petronia(It exists, no kidding.) Last night as I was lying in bed I was - not thinking about Hikaru no Go, actually, but about something my dad said the other day, re how during the Cultural Revolution the only foreign films available were Albanian or North Korean. And I was like, North Korea made films? (My sister: what's Albania?) And my mum was like, "Oh yes, The Flower Picker wasn't it? Yes yes, the lead actress was quite pretty," and she starts singing this little tune that was the film's main theme. o_O; People I swear, you live with them for twenty years and you still don't know half of what there is to know. I mean, North Korean films. My dad said they were all rolling pastoral landscapes and apple trees. N.Korea just one big apple orchard.
...Anyway this segued in my head into Chinese WWII films, and how they invariably reduce me to a bawling wreck in a way that American or European war films can't accomplish. The odd thing is that Japanese WWII films do me in worse. Especially if there are kids involved, that's the nadir - there's that b&w one I caught on TV once, about the elementary school teacher - and the one Hasegawa-sensei lent out - and then I sat up and went O_O, dear lord Mikan no Taikyoku. I'd forgotten.
Has anyone else seen that? (The Go Masters, in English.) I think it may be the only film out there that's seriously all about go players. It's also a ten-hankie-and-buy-a-bottle-of-gatorade-to-ward-off-dehydration genuine-article weeper. Man, thinking about it makes my stomach wobbly. ^^; It's a Sino-Japanese collaboratively-produced WWII movie, so you can imagine.
(I have this mental picture now of Waya, like, renting the video because it has a goban on the cover, and getting a bunch of the guys over to watch it. And at the end they're all quiet, y'know - shiiiiii~~~~~n - and doing that funny scrunchy thing that guys do when they're trying not to burst into girly tears while watching a movie. ^^;;; I suspect the thing would be even more depressing to someone who cares about the game, actually.)
...Anyway this segued in my head into Chinese WWII films, and how they invariably reduce me to a bawling wreck in a way that American or European war films can't accomplish. The odd thing is that Japanese WWII films do me in worse. Especially if there are kids involved, that's the nadir - there's that b&w one I caught on TV once, about the elementary school teacher - and the one Hasegawa-sensei lent out - and then I sat up and went O_O, dear lord Mikan no Taikyoku. I'd forgotten.
Has anyone else seen that? (The Go Masters, in English.) I think it may be the only film out there that's seriously all about go players. It's also a ten-hankie-and-buy-a-bottle-of-gatorade-to-ward-off-dehydration genuine-article weeper. Man, thinking about it makes my stomach wobbly. ^^; It's a Sino-Japanese collaboratively-produced WWII movie, so you can imagine.
(I have this mental picture now of Waya, like, renting the video because it has a goban on the cover, and getting a bunch of the guys over to watch it. And at the end they're all quiet, y'know - shiiiiii~~~~~n - and doing that funny scrunchy thing that guys do when they're trying not to burst into girly tears while watching a movie. ^^;;; I suspect the thing would be even more depressing to someone who cares about the game, actually.)
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Date: 2003-03-03 06:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-04 06:21 am (UTC)Now, Laurence of Arabia. I could do with a repeat viewing of Laurence of Arabia. ^_^;;
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Date: 2003-03-05 06:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-05 06:58 am (UTC)Hope you can see that; I dunno about my encoding. ^^; You could probably find it in rentals somewhere.
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Date: 2003-03-05 07:03 am (UTC)