Pachinko
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Details
- Title: 파친코 / パチンコ / Pachinko
- Genre: Drama, family, historical
- Format: Webdrama
- Episodes: 8 (Season 1)
- Broadcast network: Apple TV+
- Broadcast period: 2022-Mar-25 to 2022-Apr-29 (Season 1)
- Air time: Friday
- Opening theme song: Let's Live for Today by The Grass Roots
- Original soundtrack: Pachinko OST
Synopsis
Based on the New York Times bestseller, this epic drama narrates the dreams and hopes of the four generations of a Korean immigrant family who are forced to leave their homeland to pursue survival and prosperity.
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Cast
- Main Cast
- Yoon Yeo Jung as Sunja
- Jun Yoo Na as young Sunja
- Kim Min Ha as teenage Sunja
- Lee Min Ho as Koh Hansu
- Jin Ha as Baek Solomon (Sunja's grandson)
- Yoon Seo Ho (윤서호) as young Solomon
- Yoon Kyung Ho (윤경호) as teenage Solomon
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- Others
- Ian H.W. Kim as Pastor Rhee
- Takahiro Inoue as Arimoto (Solomon's co-worker)
- Ryotaro Sugimoto as Tetsuya (Solomon's classmate)
- Dakatade Shoumin as teenage Tetsuya
- Yoriko Haraguchi as Hansu's Japanese wife
- Kim Bo Min (김보민) as Shin Dong Hee (Bok Hee's younger sister)
- Kim Dha Sol (김다솔) as Sung Chung
- Ku Sung Hwan (구성환) as Fatso Chung
- Park Min Yi (박민이) as Gombo Chung
- Jun So Hyun (전소현) as female shaman
- Lee Joo (이주) as Mr. Song
- Hiromitsu Takeda as Totoyama Haruki (Mozasu's best friend)
- Rome Kanda as Japanese doctor
- Jimmy Bennett as Andrew Holmes (Hansu's tutoring student)
- Bob Frazer as Mr. Holmes (Andrew's father)
- Dai Hasegawa as Ryochi's son
- Lee Hyun Ri (이현리) as Kiyo (Jong Yul's girlfriend)
- Hideo Kimura as Mr. Shimamura (Yoseb's boss)
Production Credits
- Production Companies: Blue Marble Pictures, A Han.Bok Dream Production, Media Res
- Executive Producers: Soo Hugh, Michael Ellenberg, Lindsey Springer, Theresa Kang-Lowe, Richard Middleton, Justin Chon, Kogonada
- Producers: Jordan Murcia, Lynne Bespflug
- Directors: Kogonada, Justin Chon
- Original writing: Min Jin Lee
- Screenwriters: Soo Hugh, Matthew J. McCue, Hansol Jung, E. J. Koh
- Music: Nico Muhly
Recognitions
- 2023 38th Independent Spirit Awards: Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series
- 2023 28th Critics' Choice Awards: Best Foreign Language Series
- 2022 American Film Institute Awards: Top 10 Programs of the Year
- 2022 Busan International Film Festival: Beyond Cinema Award (Kim Min Ha)
- 2022 4th Asian Content Awards: ACA Rising Star (Kim Min Ha)
- 2022 Peabody Awards: Best Entertainment
Notes
- Filming for the series took place in South Korea, Japan, America, and Canada.
- The series was produced in three langauges: Korean, Japanese, and English.
- For the first season, the first 3 episodes premiered on Friday, March 25, 2022. After that, one episode was released every Friday until April 29, 2022.
- On the day the finale of the first season was released, Apple TV+ renewed the series for a second season.