The Surrounding Game

2018

English

6.6

♡ 7

Will Lockhart Director

Ben Lockhart as Himself

Lee Sedol as Himself

Michael Redmond as Himself

Jeff Shaevel as Himself

Born from the simplest rules, the ancient game of Go is the most complex and elegant game ever discovered. For thousands of years, masters and disciples have passed the game down as a window to the human mind. Now, for the first time, a group of Americans enter the ring, in search of a prodigy who will change the game forever.

Tokyo Newcomer

2012

Chinese

6.4

♡ 3

Qinmin Jiang Director

Tôru Kazama as

Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as

Hideo Nakaizumi as

Janine Chun-Ning Chang as Nanako

A young Chinese Go board game player arrives in Japan for training. He doesn't speak Japanese and becomes embarrassed living there. By dropping his Go stones, he happens to meet an old Japanese woman who sells vegetables on the street. They become familiar with each other. The young Chinese Go player, the old woman named Igarashi and her grandson Shoichi then live together.

The Divine Move 2: The Wrathful

2019

Korean

6.4

♡ 9

60%

Action

go

weiqi

Khan Lee Director

Kim Yong-Joon as 100 multiplayer baduk players

Heo Sung-tae as Busan Weed

Do-Hwan Woo as Shaman Jangsung

Stephanie Lee as Sun-hee Hwang

In the 1990s, when Go gambling fever swept Korea, Gui-su loses everything because his father gambled obsessively until there was nothing left. Left all alone in the world, Gui-su meets a mentor and Go teacher, Il-do, and goes through vicious training to become the grandmaster of Go. He sets out for revenge on the world that destroyed his life, but soon finds himself chased by an unknown loner pursuing his own vendetta.

AlphaGo

2017

English

7.8

♡ 1

100%

artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

Greg Kohs Director

Myungwan Kim as Self

Michael Redmond as Self

Lee Sedol as Self

Nick Bostrom as Self

The ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. Yet in 2016, Google's DeepMind team announced that they would be taking on Lee Sedol, the world's most elite Go champion. AlphaGo chronicles the team as it prepares to test the limits of its rapidly-evolving AI technology. The film pits man against machine, and reveals as much about the workings of the human mind as it does the future of AI.