From: Patrick Davin <patrick <at> LYRA <dot> VEGA <dot> OR <dot> JP>
Date: 8 nov 1999
Subject: Re: Shogi cinema

Nick Bardsley asks:
>As a newcomer to Shogi, I've been working through the books as you do
>and last night I wondered if there are any films in Japanese cinema
>that use Shogi as a theme.

"Ote" is such a movie.  Must have come out around '91.  "Ote" is the
shogi equivalent of "check" in chess, and the movie is about the
exploits of a shogi pro (or would-be pro, I forget) played by former
boxer Hidekazu Akai.  Features a game of one of the huge variants
(25x25, as I remember), a whole bunch of interesting characters, and
some hysterical Osaka dialect.  Highly recommended.

Now, what are the chances of there being a English-subtitled version?