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Post #1 Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2023 11:32 am 
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This drama popped up randomly on my yootoobs feed a few days ago. Hosted on a Korean site, with Korean subtitles, it appears to be of Japanese origin, maybe from the 1980s. It's a full length film, quite well done, with lots of professional go, curious characters like monks and gangsters and collectors, and everyone who can chain smokes. The story seems to revolve around a goban (that maybe travels through time, I can't tell) that changes hands often, sometimes with blood involved. The board is several hundred years old; the grid is engraved, not drawn; the hoshi are inlaid x's; the top is edged with what might be silver inlays; unusual carvings on the sides; and there is a mysterious poem or story written on the bottom. I've watched this movie start to finish twice and I cannot make any sense out it. Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/mvlgx7HNX4Y?si=Oj0kligdSXyOOrJV

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Post #2 Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2023 3:34 pm 
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The video summary translates like this in my browser:
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Section 3.1 Special Feature This is a drama series based on a novel by Park Chi-moon. The popularity of Baduk in the 90s was so great that top actors of the time played leading roles. * Actors: Yoo In-chon (Cho Hoon-hyeon), Jeong Bo-seok (Seo Bong-soo), Lee Jae-ryong (Yoo Chang-hyuk), Jeong Jun (Lee Chang-ho), Jeong Seong-mo (Park Chi-moon), Ko So-young


Clearly this is from a time when CGI was perceived to be cool. Instead of using a real Go board for the shots of a flying board or board with stock video as background they have used a low resolution computer graphic.

Maybe this is the Korean wikipedia article: https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%9E%EC%88%98

It says in, auto-translation again:

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《Matchmaker》is a special 3.1 drama that aired on MBC from February 28, 1994 to March 1, 1994 . It is Korea's first full-scale Baduk drama and depicts the entire process of Jo Hoon-hyeon , Seo Bong - soo , Lee Chang-ho , and Yoo Chang- hyuk, who are considered the top four players in the Korean Baduk world, taking away the first and second World Cup Eungchang Gi Cup championships, as well as the 100 years of Korean-Japanese Baduk intertwined with the wooden board. This is a work that explores the history of medicine in an interesting way. [1] And, rather than dramatizing a literary work based on an already published original work, it became a hot topic by being produced as a drama by Park Chi-moon, a baduk journalist, even before it was published as a full-length novel. [2] [3]

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In the finals of the 1st Yingchangqi Cup World Cup in 1989, Jo Hun-hyeon was defeated by Nieweiping 1 to 2 and faced a crisis, but a woman named Yun-seo gave him a very light and worn-out weapon called a 'splint club'. After receiving a mysterious checkerboard as a gift, he miraculously wins. Afterwards, Jo Hoon-hyeon, who felt the futility of winning, became obsessed with the secret of the braces team.

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Post #3 Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:00 am 
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So a dramatization of real world go pros in a series of real matches. Very cool. Thank you very much for your research! The translation leaves so much to the imagination.

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Post #4 Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:41 pm 
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Probably these cryptic words ...

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Section 3.1 Special Feature


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a special 3.1 drama


... mean that this was a TV movie that was specially made to be aired on March 1, which is a national holiday in South Korea. Probably there is a tradition of making TV movies for that occasion.

The tournament that is the subject of the movie is the Ing Cup. Which was won by Cho Hunhyun in 1989 and Seo Bongsoo in 1993.

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