It still employs the standard drama tropes, such as the casual racism of the extreme American wealthy as a catalyst for the money and prestige-obsessed, male protagonist’s storyline, or the typical fairytale story of Sunja’s strict mother and overly doting father. However, “Pachinko” cannot claim to be an entirely fresh, groundbreaking show. Instead, it fully respects that state of prewar Korea, centering and uplifting the human stories of a nonindustrially developed nation in a respectful and noncondescending way - not often seen in major television. “Pachinko” also doesn’t falsely represent Korea as a scarcely populated, impoverished country that might benefit from colonial occupation.
“Pachinko” does no favors to the Japanese in relation to the Korean experience - it represents Japanese forces in the 1910s as oppressive invaders, and in the 1980s, as a nation that still hasn’t much improved in their racial equality. Ping-ponging between these two eras, “Pachinko” deftly represents and unpacks the traumatic history and structural racism foundational to the Korean-Japanese relationship. The pilot of “Pachinko,” especially with its long, highly stylized, “Succession” like, title sequence, establishes that “Pachinko” is not a typical K-drama - it’s a Korean American family epic that is only just getting started. While this is all the pilot holds, readers of the novel will know just how many storylines “Pachinko” will cover, as the book traces Sunja’s entire life and family throughout the 20th century. The pilot switches between 1910s Korea, where the young protagonist Sunja (Minha Kim, Jeon Yu-na, and Youn Yuh-jung) grow up under the watch of her loving parents and less loving Japanese colonizers, and 1980s Japan, where Sunja’s grandson, uber ambitious New York banker Solomon (Jin Ha), returns to his childhood home of Japan (where Sunja now lives) to clinch a property development deal.
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With well-received, emotionally dense source material, the “Pachinko” TV adaptation, which premiered March 25 on Apple TV, certainly had large shoes to fill - and fill them they did. Set against the backdrop of this harsh colonial regime, “Pachinko” tells a heart-wrenching and compelling story of love, family, hardship and discrimination throughout the 20th century. “Pachinko,” a compelling family drama that weaves through time was adapted from a 2017 novel to an Apple TV+ television show. (Photo courtesy of Apple TV+)Īdapted from Min Ju Lee’s 2017 New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, “Pachinko” tells a multi-generational story of a Korean woman and her family who moved to Japan during the Japanese colonization of Korea.
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