Go !
This news made me think of Go, so i have to talk about it now.
Go was, along with Ping Pong, the movie that contributed to make Yôsuke Kubozuka one of the biggest teen idol of the 00’s.
It’s about a korean kid trying to have a normal relationship with a japanese girl. It tackles a japanese problem of korean immigrants. You see most of the korean immigrants in Japan are not really immigrant anymore, they were born in Japan and most of them don’t speak korean or have ever put a foot in Korea.
You are japanese because your blood is japanese not because Japan is the place you were born and raised in. That creates a generation of fucked-up kids that really don’t know where they fit-in.
If you add that the kid in Go goes to a North Korean highschool in Japan you have a really good setting for a tormented teen flick.
There’s very few movies talking about that topic in Japan. What makes Go en more an exception is that it was aimed at a teenagers audience. Anyway Go is not as depressive as it sounds it’s actually a pretty decent teen movie.
The opening scene where an (kinda) afroed Kubosuka single-handedly beat the crap of an entire Basketball team is kinda cool too.
Anyway here’s a korean-german (don’t ask) trailer for Go(qt).
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