Synopsis

Sugihara is Korean and has a rather unusual personal history. He was born and grew up in Japan where he attended a school for Korean immigrants. After completing junior high school, he decides to go to a Japanese high school. Sugihara’s father, Hideyoshi was once a professional boxer; he forced his son to learn his trade – under punches – as a child. Thanks to his sporting abilities, Sugihara is doing well at his new school and has a good reputation. He meets a Japanese girl at a party and falls in love with her. One night, Sugihara receives a telephone call from his best friend, Jong-il, whom he knew when he was still at the Korean school. What Jong-il has to tell him has the worst possible consequences for his relationship with the girl he loves.

Director

Isao Yukisada was born in Kumamoto in 1968. He first worked as an assistant director on Shunji Iwai’s films Love Letter and Swallowtail Butterfly and then, in 1998, for Seiichi Tanabe on his film, Dog Food. Ever since his tragedy, Himawari/Sunflower, which received the international critics’ award at Pusan International Festival in 2000, he has come to be regarded as one of the up and coming talents of Japanese cinema. He contributed to the video series, “Love Cinema” with a piece entitled Tojiru Hi/Enclosed Pain, screened at Locarno 2001. Go was Japan's selection to the Foreign Language Oscars.

Filmography

2001 Go 
2001 Zeitaku na hone (Luxurious Bone) 
2000 Tojiru hi (Enclosed Pain) aka Love Cinema Vol. 3 
2000 Himawari (Sunflower)  

Film Credit

Production Companies: TOEI CO., LTD. 
Producer: Masao Sato 
Screenplay: Kankuro Kudo. 
Cinematography: Katsumi Yanagijima. 
Editor: Tsuyoshi Imai. 
Principal Cast: Yusuke Kubozuka, Kou Shibasaki, Shinobu Ootake, Taro Yamamoto, Hirofumi Arai

Go 
Isao Yukisada Japan
2001, 122 minutes, COLOR