Hikaru no Go (Season 1)

Hikaru no Go (2020) is a Chinese live-action take on the classic Go manga, and you can watch it online on iFILM. A boy named Shi Guang digs an old Go board out of the attic and wakes the spirit of a player who slept inside it for a thousand years.

Only Shi Guang can see or hear the ghost, Chu Ying, which makes the boy look like an oddball one minute and a prodigy the next. Chu Ying wants a single thing: to find the "divine move" every Go master chases, and he picks the boy as his way there. So Shi Guang, who couldn't care less about the ancient game at first, sits down at the board and meets Yu Liang — a child prodigy destined to become the rival of his life.

Director Liu Chang moves the late-1990s manga into present-day China while keeping the core: growing up through a game, friendship and obsession with mastery. It lands for longtime fans and for anyone who's never placed a single stone, because the rules aren't the point. Stream Hikaru no Go (2020) online on iFILM.