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Drama - Completed 2020

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Drama, Biography
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 119 mn
- Synopsis
- Started playing shogi (Japanese chess) at young age, Eiichi and Riku grew up together,
  both devoted to shogi. But when they reached 20-year-old, Riku had become much stronger than Eiichi that it was impossible for him to defeat Riku. Being disappointed with his failure, Eiichi attends college, where he learns about AI programmed shogi. This encounter evokes Eiichi's passion to shogi and he puts all his efforts to make the program stronger. One day, he gets an offer for his computer shogi to play a match with a human player, which he soon finds out that its opponent is Riku.