Playing Go in Movies and TV-Shows (pictures)

“It’s supposed to be the most difficult board game ever conceived”

This line makes it sound like there’s a university somewhere where scholars keep creating new board games, in the hope of conceiving the most difficult board game, and the record so far is held by go.

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Copycat killer

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This looks… unfortunate.

I’ll let y’all know if there are better depictions in the episodes.

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Same series, this is a cool one in the titles:

Still no game during the series. :frowning:

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The first picture looks very anime-like, but the second picture looks a lot more realistic. What style of series is this?

EDIT: I googled “Yuntai Lingyuan” and apparently it’s a live-action series called “The Ingenious One”?

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Yes, and it’s a good series so far.

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Main case detective goes to meet his retired senior detective in a Baduk club. No better shots, unfortunately.

Kdrama “Revenant”.

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in the new One Piece Series on Netflix, Garp is playing GO on his ship :smiley:

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The Ingenious One.

(yes I fought to get that subtitle in the screenshot :stuck_out_tongue:)

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Nobody talking about the One Piece live action? Because we gotta talk about the One Piece live action.

EDIT: Oh you did mention it. My bad.

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The games are pretty good. They do look like real games that make sense.

The last move on the first picture cuts the two black stones, threatening a double atari. White claims the game which— although it goes against etiquette—is reasonable from a gameplay and plot perspective.

It’s nice to see they did put in the effort to make it believable and cool :smiling_face:.

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Hey there. I haven’t seen anyone mentioning The Wheel Of Time. We can see two scenes (Season 2 episode 6 and 7) where a game is looking very much like go.

What do you think of this one?





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“There was a Crooked Man
Who had a Crooked Board
And played some Crooked Stones on it
T’was all he could afford…”

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I was gonna do Amagi Brilliant Park~

Well I’ll be…

Shoulda known Dr. Sledge was a go player!

Esoterica is an amazing channel.

You could have known :wink:

Screenshot taken from the bio on his website

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Thought I read that bio! I missed it.

Wonder if he plays on here? :thinking:

Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix

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Apparently macOS doesn’t allow me to screenshot it, but in “Monarch”, S01-E02, on AppleTV+, at 41:17 there seems to be a Go board on Col. Shaw’s table.

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Someone made a montage of 57 movie appearances of go/baduk/weiqi:

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