Mainstream Go Sightings

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 6:39 am

Just zapped into “Fist of Legend” (1994, a martial arts movie with Jet Li) on arte (French-German TV)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_Legend

Don’t know about all of EUrope, but French and Germans should be able to view it for the next two weeks in the mediatheque: German, French

There’s a Go scene somewhere between 1:10:00 and 1:18:00, maybe there are more that I have missed.

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 9:08 am

Found it on YT:

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 9:21 am

okay, seems to be Gomoku rather than Go :oops:

LocoRon · Post by **LocoRon** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 4:32 pm

In episode 16 of Shirobako, a character mentions that she was in the Go club in high school, and a bit later there are two brief shots of a Go board.

EdLee · Post by **EdLee** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 2:20 am

LocoRon wrote:two brief shots of a Go board.

Hi LocoRon, very pretty; thanks.

Do you happen to remember if the two were completely still shots,
or were they "animated" -- with the camera doing more than just 2D panning or rotation ?

In other words, any 3D camera movement at all ?
Just curious.

I ask, because if the scene was CG, then it's trivial to have 3D motion;
but if it was hand drawn, then any 3D motion would be a ton of work for the animators.

LocoRon · Post by **LocoRon** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:27 am

EdLee wrote:Do you happen to remember if the two were completely still shots,
or were they "animated" -- with the camera doing more than just 2D panning or rotation ?

They were mostly static; there were two shots of the same board and stones position from different camera angles, with perhaps a bit of panning (unless I am remembering incorrectly). The second shot (pictured) also had a hand reach over the board to place a stone (I timed the screenshot to capture the full board, without the hand obstructing it).

EdLee · Post by **EdLee** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 12:02 pm

Hi LocoRon, Thanks. Very pretty. Based on this screenshot alone,
it seems they had a much bigger budget than Hikaru.

TegaiS · Post by **TegaiS** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 4:28 am

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. During their escape from Orgoreyn Genly Ai teaches Estraven to play Go.

lava12005 · Post by **lava12005** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 12:05 am

Seen this?

RBerenguel · Post by **RBerenguel** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 3:28 am

Not mainstream (well, a lot of people visit this town during the summer), but I saw this figure in the front window of a board game/gift shop (they had the usual run-of-the-mill board games inside, not even a go board as far as I could tell) in Mirepoix, France. Looks like white plays horrible, but it seems to be a 9x9 board, playing go (playing on intersections, the way the rightmost player holds the stone)

Abyssinica · Post by **Abyssinica** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:22 pm

TegaiS · Post by **TegaiS** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:03 pm

Henry A. Kissinger, On China (2011)

Bill Spight · Post by **Bill Spight** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:03 pm

Here is a blog quote I just read today.

Gaius Publius wrote:As many readers know, I’m a fan of what the game of Go calls a “strong move” — very aggressive play when the position is favorable.

Not what I would call a strong move, but I'll let that pass.

URL: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/ ... ntest.html

Abyssinica · Post by **Abyssinica** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:59 pm

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/07/09/y ... -magazine/

I wish to be Igo Girl

goTony · Post by **goTony** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 9:24 pm

Abyssinica wrote:http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/07/09/you-go-girl-ancient-game-of-go-reaches-out-to-japans-youth-with-trendy-magazine/

I wish to be Igo Girl

Lol, you already have an anime, but will u need a personality profile?

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