Go
Japan
2001
122 Min
Color
1.85:1
Japanese, Korean
Synopsis
The film stars Kubozuka Yōsuke (Sugihara/Lee) and Kou Shibasaki (Tsubaki Sakurai). It tells the story of a Korean boy born and raised in Japan (Kubozuka) and his love story with a Japanese girl (Shibasaki). The central theme of the movie is the integration problems of a Zainichi Koreans in Japanese society. —Wikipedia
Director
Isao Yukisada
Isao Yukisada was born in Kumamoto in 1968. He first worked as an assistant director on Shunji Iwai’s films Love Letter and Swallowtail Butterfly and then, in 1998, for Seiichi Tanabe on his film, Dog Food. Ever since his tragedy, Himawari/Sunflower, which received the international critics’ award at Pusan International Festival in 2000, he has come to be regarded as one of the up and coming talents of Japanese cinema. He contributed to the video series, “Love Cinema” with a piece entitled Tojiru Hi/Enclosed Pain, screened at Locarno 2001. Go was Japan’s selection to the Foreign Language Oscars. —ilovemarrakech.com
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