Mr. Go (2013) on Netflix
Fifteen-year-old Wei Wei runs a circus with Ling Ling, a bat-swinging gorilla. A loan shark demands her grandfather's debt, so a sports agent takes Ling Ling to the Korean Baseball League.
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- Netflix4.0/5
- IMDb6.1/101,015 votes
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Plot summary
A 15-year-old circus ringmaster Wei-wei is left all alone with gorilla Ling-ling after grandfather passes away. Thanks to her grandfather's love for baseball, Ling-ling was trained to play baseball and has developed remarkable hitting skills.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mr. Go (2013)
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- A team of more than 500 animators and CG professionals led by visual effects director Jeong Seong-jin spent four years developing motion capture and digital fur technology, plus another year of editing; the result was a gorilla whose 3.8 million hairs could each sway in the wind.
- Kim Yong-hwa, director of 200 Pounds Beauty and Take Off, decided to adapt Huh Young-man's 28-year-old comic after seeing a YouTube video of Christian the lion, which showed that humans can tame animals.
- Mr. Go, about a gorilla who becomes a baseball superstar, was the first South Korean film to be fully shot in 3D.
- In China, Mr. Go topped the box office on its opening day with ¥12.2 million, the highest single-day record for a Korean film in the country.
- With consultant Kim Tae-yong of Rhythm and Hues Studios, known for Life of Pi, the production team set up Dexter Studios, whose Zelos System software processed data so efficiently that the film cost 10 percent of the budget demanded by most Hollywood movies.
