Go (2001 film)

Go
Directed by	Isao Yukisada
Produced by	Mitsuru Kurosawa
Written by	Kazuki Kaneshiro Kankurō Kudō
Starring	Yosuke Kubozuka Kou Shibasaki Shinobu Ōtake Taro Yamamoto
Music by	Yôko Kumagai Hidehiko Urayama
Cinematography	Katsumi Yanagishima
Editing by	Takeshi Imai
Release date(s)	October 20, 2001 January 16, 2002
Running time	122 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Go is a 2001 Japanese movie by Isao Yukisada, based on the novel of the same title by Kazuki Kaneshiro. 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.

Selected Cast

Actor	Character	Japanese / Korean Name	Notes
Yōsuke Kubozuka	Sugihara/Lee	杉原
Kō Shibasaki	Tsubaki Sakurai	椿桜井
Hirofumi Arai	Won-Su	元秀（ウォンス）
Taro Yamamoto	Tawake	タワケ
Takato Hosoyamada	Jong-Il	正一（ジョンイル）
Tsutomu Yamazaki	Hideyoshi	秀吉	Sugihara/Lee's father
Shinobu Ōtake	Michiko	道子	Sugihara/Lee's mother
Ren Osugi	Taxi Driver
Masato Hagiwara	Policeman
Asami Mizukawa	Korean girl at train station
Mitsu Murata	Kato	加藤
Sansei Shiomi	Kim Seonsaeng-nim (North Korean teacher)	金先生
Kim Min	Naomi

External links

• Go at the Internet Movie Database
• "GO" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2001/dy002820.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-21.