Go (2001)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Go |
| Original title | GO |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 122 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Isao Yukisada |
| script | Kankurō Kudō |
| production |
Shigeyuki Endo , Mitsuru Kurosawa |
| music | Meyna Co. |
| camera | Katsumi Yanagishima |
| cut | Takeshi Imai |
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Go (orig. GO ) is a Japanese feature film from 2001 based on the novel by Kazuki Kaneshiro . Isao Yukisada directed the multi-award-winning drama and the script was written by Kankurō Kudō . The main role played Yosuke Kubozuka . The film was produced by Tōei .
action
The main character and first-person narrator is the fluffy-headed Sugihara, a Japanese-born teenager of Korean descent ( Zainichi ), whose real name is Lee Jong-Ho. In his coming-of-age story he has to prove himself as a fighter on several fronts: in his North Korean clique of friends through life-threatening tests of courage, against the drill in his North Korean school, against his father, the racist resentment of Japanese society and in his first Love relationship.
Although the film begins with Sugihara announcing that he will tell his love story, the viewer initially presents himself as a cool, quick-witted rebel. In the first film sequences he rehearses the “Super Great Chicken Race” with his Korean clique, in which you have to jump as close as possible in front of an incoming subway and run away from it.
When his parents have to pick him up from the police station, his father, a former professional boxer, gives him a rubdown. The father taught Sugihara boxing since he was a child, often beating him up as an educational measure, and the two of them still fight their conflicts through boxing. After the father took on the South Korean citizenship in order to enable himself to travel to Hawaii , Sugihara decides to switch from the strict North Korean cadre school he previously attended to a normal Japanese school. When word of his decision got around at the Korean school, he was verbally and physically attacked by his teacher as a traitor to his homeland. Only the intelligent, actually reserved Jong-Il defends him. Thereupon the two develop a deep friendship even after Sugihara's change of school.
Thanks to his boxing skills, Sugihara gains respect from Japanese classmates at the new school too. This is where the love story announced at the beginning begins. The cheeky Japanese classmate Sakurai watches Sugihara playing a basketball game and falls in love with him. She approaches him directly at a party, and friendship and ultimately love develop between the two. However, Sugihara hides his Korean origins. When his friend Jong-Il is stabbed to death by Japanese youth, his old friends from the North Korean school swear vengeance. Sugihara does not want to join them in his pain because he believes that the peace-loving Jong-Il was in favor of an end to the violence.
He seeks consolation from his girlfriend Sakurai. In a love hotel, the two prepare their first night of love. Before that, he makes a confession to her: he reveals his true Korean name to her. Sakurai's reaction is more drastic than expected. In reality, she also has a different first name, which she has withheld from him out of shame, the original Japanese name Tsubaki. Raised by her father to regard Koreans and Chinese as unclean blood, she tearfully tells him that she is afraid of sleeping with a Korean.
The contact breaks off at first and Sugihara concentrates on his school career and the relationship with his parents. There is a final boxing duel between father and son in which he loses a tooth. On Christmas Eve, Sakurai calls him and asks him to meet her. When she confesses that she fell in love with him the first time she watched him in the gym, they embrace forgivingly.
History of origin
The heavily strained relationship between Japan, North Korea and, in a broader sense, South Korea , which partly goes back to a time before the state was founded, forms the background of this film, in which the conflict is overcome by the protagonists: After the end of the Second World War in 1945 Approximately 2.5 million Korean-born workers living on the Japanese islands decide whether to return to the Korean Peninsula . About 600,000 decided against it.
Some of the children of the Zainichi Koreans, known in Japan, attend Korean schools in which, among other things, the nationalism propagated in North and South Korea is taught. On the other hand, in Japan the integration of foreigners is understood as an "assimilation process" into Japanese society. When faced with this choice, the majority of Zainichi Koreans still refuse to take this step. Therefore, they are partially excluded from Japanese society, which cannot understand this, and occasionally even discriminated against.
The film is based on the novel GO by the third generation of the Zainichi Koreans, born in 1968 in the year 2000, the author Kazuki Kaneshiro, who received the renowned Naoki Literature Prize for his work . Over 20 film production studios fought over the rights to a film version of the novel. Director Isao Yukisada got an offer from a producer friend to film the book.
reception
The film was released in Japanese cinemas on October 20, 2001, grossing a total of 500 million yen (about 3.8 million euros ). The South Korean theatrical release followed on November 24 of the same year. In the following months it was shown at several film festivals, including the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival . On January 9, 2003, Rapid Eye Movies Go was released in German cinemas. In 2004 the film ran for the first time on German television.
The majority of the critics received the film positively. For example, it was praised for being visually stunning. Especially the beginning was praised for its unusual sequence of cuts and the versatile camera settings.
Reviews
“Go's dramatic trajectory may be a fairly well traveled one, but in its stronger moments, such as the romantic interplay between Kubozuka and Shibasaki, it's undeniably affecting, and as such, one of the most outstandingly compelling and thought-provoking films of its year . ”
"Go's dramatic trajectory may be a relatively well-traveled one, but in his stronger moments, like the romantic interlude of Kobozuka and Shibasaki, he is undeniably moving, and as such, one of the most strikingly indomitable and thoughtful films of the year."
"Go 'is a truly innovative masterpiece in terms of its staging, which is coordinated in terms of form and content, which testifies to the director's abundance of observation, his sense of atmosphere and the unorthodox, dramatic structure!"
"GO is breathtaking, big cinema and Japan is the most beautiful film country."
"Sometimes fast-paced and playful, then restrained again in the love story, the richness of detail in the observations is just as impressive as the film's sense of atmosphere, an unorthodox, dramatic structure and an impressive timing."
Awards
The film was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2002 in the Panorama section. At the Marrakech International Film Festival in Morocco , Yōsuke Kubozuka was awarded the Golden Star as Best Actor and Isao Yukisada . At the Palm Springs International Film Festival 2002, the film won the FIPRESCI award . At the World Film Festival 2002 in Montréal , Go received the audience award.
At the 2001 Japanese Academy Awards , the film won ten categories, making it the big award winner. Although he could not prevail in the main category, Best Film , against Hayao Miyazaki's animated film Spirited Away , but won in the categories Best Director , Best Screenplay , Best Actor (Yōsuke Kubozuka), Best Supporting Actor ( Tsutomu Yamazaki ), Best Supporting Actress ( Kou Shibasaki ), Best Cinematography , Best Editing , Best Lighting and Best Young Actors (Yōsuke Kubozuka and Kou Shibasaki). He was also in the categories of Best Production Design , Best Music , Best Sound and Shinobu Ōtake as Best Supporting Actress .
At the presentation of the Kinema Junpo Awards in 2002, the film won in the categories of Best Film , Best Director , Best Screenplay , Best Actor (Yōsuke Kubozuka), Best Supporting Actor (Tsutomu Yamazaki), Best Supporting Actress (Kou Shibasaki) and Best Young Actor (Yōsuke Kubozuka) . At the Nikkan Sports Film Awards , Yōsuke Kubozuka won the Ishihara Yujiro Prize for Best Young Actor, Isao Yukisada for Best Director , Kou Shibasaki for Best Young Talent and Tsutomu Yamazaki for Best Supporting Actor . Go won Blue Ribbon Awards in the categories of Best Director , Best Supporting Actor (Tsutomu Yamazaki) and Best New Actress (Kou Shibasaki). There were four Hochi Film Awards in the categories of Best Film , Best Actor (Yōsuke Kubozuka), Best Supporting Actor (Tsutomu Yamazaki) and Best Supporting Actress (Kou Shibasaki). At the Mainichi film competition in 2002, Kankurō Kudō won a Sponichi young talent award in the Best Screenplay category and Kou Shibasaki and Yōsuke Kubozuka each. At the Yokohama Film Festival , the film was awarded in the categories of Best Film , Best Director , Best Screenplay , Best Actor (Yōsuke Kubozuka), Best Supporting Actor (Tsutomu Yamazaki), Best Supporting Actress (Kou Shibasaki) and Best Newcomer ( Takato Hosoyamada ).
The film was Japan's entry for a nomination at the 2002 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , but it was neither nominated nor awarded.
Web links
- Go to the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Go to prisma.de
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- ↑ Release certificate for Go . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2008 (PDF; test number: 92 449 DVD).
- ↑ a b Rapid Eye Movies ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://cinemakun.com/data/01top10japan.html Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ DirkJasper Filmlexikon ( Memento from August 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Movie starts
- ↑ Go. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 5, 2017 .
