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Details

• Title: 파친코 / パチンコ / Pachinko
• Genre: Drama, family, historical
• Format: Webdrama
• Broadcast network: Apple TV+
• Air time: Friday

Season 1

Pachinko - Season 1

• Episodes: 8
• Broadcast period: 2022-Mar-25 to 2022-Apr-29
• Opening theme song:
  • Let's Live for Today by The Grass Roots (ep 1-7)
  • Let's Live for Today (Korean Ver.) by Lee Nal Chi (이날치) (ep 8)
• 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.

User/Viewer Ratings

4.00

(3 votes)

Cast

Main Cast

• Yoon Yeo Jung as Kim 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

1915-1938 Jung In Ji (정인지) as Yang Jin (Sunja's mother) Lee Dae Ho (이대호) as Hoon (Sunja's father) Noh Sang Hyun as Baek Isak (Mozasu's father) Jung Eun Chae as Kyung Hee (Sunja's best friend) Felice Choi as older Kyung Hee Han Joon Woo as Baek Yoseb (Isak's brother) Yeji Yeon as Shin Bok Hee Kim Young Ok as older Bok Hee (ep 5) Jo Ah In as child assistant (ep 1) Joo Young Ho as Byung Ho Song (ep 1) Kim Ri Woo (김리우) as Japanese officer #1 (ep 1) Lee Kang Wook as Japanese officer #2 (ep 1) Jung So Ri (정소리) as Ji Yun (ep 2-3) Ri Min as pharmacist (ep 3) Lee Seo Hwan (이서환) as Tailor Kinoshita (ep 4) Son Sun Geun as Pastor Shin (ep 4) Jung Jin Gak as rice merchant (ep 4) Lee Ji Hye (이지혜) as Korean singer (ep 4) Park Yong (박용) as pawnbroker (ep 5) Kwon Joo Young (권주영) as moneylender (ep 5) Takashi Yamaguchi as Ryochi (Koh's employer) (ep 7) Kerry Knuppe as Ms. Holmes (ep 7) Jung Woong In as Koh Jong Yul (Hansu's father) (ep 7) Woo Sang Jun as Pastor Yoo (ep 8) Choi Joon Young (최준영) as Sexton Hu (ep 8) Kang Jung Im (강정임) as prisoner's wife (ep 8) Kim In Woo (김인우) as Mr. Hasegawa (ep 8) Lee Seung Chul as street vendor (ep 8) Park Jae Joon as Baek Noa (Sunja and Hansu's son) (ep 8) Kim Seung Hwa as Hasegawa Kimi (ep 8)

1989 Soji Arai as Baek Mo Se / Bando Mozasu (Sunja and Isak's son) Carter Jeong and Koren Lee as baby Mozasu Minami Kaho as Nagatomi Etsuko Mari Yamamoto as Hana (Etsuko's daughter) Jung Ye Bin (정예빈) as teenage Hana Jimmi Simpson as Tom Andrews Anna Sawai as Ichizaki Naomi Park Hye Jin (박혜진) as Han Geum Ja Louis Ozawa as Yoshii Mamoru Hiro Kanagawa as Mr. Goto (ep 1) Yoshio Maki as Abe Katsu (ep 2, 4) Martin Martinez as Angelo (ep 2-3) Takeda Hiromitsu (다케다 히로미츠) as Mr. Haruki (ep 5) Bae Ki Bum (배기범) as Satoru (ep 5)

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 83rd Peabody Awards: Best Entertainment
• 2023 27th Art Directors Guild Awards: Excellence in Production Design for a One-Hour Period Single-Camera Series (Mara LePere-Schloop)
• 2023 38th Independent Spirit Awards: Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series
• 2023 28th Critics' Choice Awards: Best Foreign Language Series
• 2022 21st American Film Institute Awards: Top 10 Programs of the Year
• 2022 C21 International Drama Awards: Best Non-English Language Drama Series
• 2022 32nd Gotham Independent Film Awards: Breakthrough Series – Long Form
• 2022 27th Busan International Film Festival: Beyond Cinema Award (Kim Min Ha)
• 2022 4th Asia Contents Awards: Rising Star (Kim Min Ha)
• 2022 20th AAFCA (African-American Film Critics Association) TV Awards: Best International Production
• 2022 Clio Awards:
  • Silver Winner (Pachinko "Epic")
  • Bronze Winner (Pachinko "Home")
• 2022 Humanitas Prize: Drama Teleplay (Soo Hugh)
• 2022 Edinburgh TV Awards: Best International Drama

Season 2

Pachinko - Season 2

• Episodes: 8
• Broadcast period: 2024-Aug-23 to 2024-Oct-11
• Opening theme song: Wait a Million Years by The Grass Roots
• Original soundtrack: Pachinko 2 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.

Cast

Main Cast

• Yoon Yeo Jung as Kim Sunja
  • Kim Min Ha as teenage Sunja
• Lee Min Ho as Koh Hansu
• Jin Ha as Baek Solomon (Sunja's grandson)

1945 Jung Eun Chae as Kyung Hee (Sunja's best friend) Kim Kang Hoon as Baek Noa (Sunja and Hansu's son) Kang Tae Joo (강태주) as teenage Noa Kim Sung Kyu as Kim Chang Ho (Hansu's associate) Jung In Ji (정인지) as Yang Jin (Sunja's mother) Han Joon Woo as Baek Yoseb (Isak's brother) Noh Sang Hyun as Baek Isak (Mozasu's father) Murakami Hiroaki as Ryochi Iwase Ryo as Ogawa Eiichi Jung So Ri (정소리) as Ji Yun Choi Joon Young (최준영) as Sexton Hu Baek Seung Hwan as Tae Hoon Hashimoto Ichiro (橋本一郎) as Goto Jang Ha Eun (장하은) as Hyo Yoon Choo Eun Kyung (추은경) as Hyo Yoon's mom Takamura Kaito as Minoru Kim Ha Neul (김하늘) as teenage Minoru Inori Kirara as Nakazono Akiko Oh Sang Moo (오상무) as farm foreman Lee Joong Ok as Korean Association Leader (ep 1) Kishi Hiroyuki as doctor (ep 2)

1989 Soji Arai as Baek Mo Se / Bando Mozasu (Sunja and Isak's son) Kwon Eun Sung (권은성) as young Mozasu Takada Mansaku (髙田万作) as teenage Mozasu Anna Sawai as Ichizaki Naomi Jimmi Simpson as Tom Andrews Park Hye Jin (박혜진) as Han Geum Ja Maki Yoshio as Abe Katsu Louis Ozawa as Mamoru Yoshii Tanaka Sotaro (田中壮太郎) as Sugihara Arima Ryohei as bakery staff (ep 1)

Others

• Ryotaro Sugimoto as Tetsuya (Solomon's classmate)
• Yoriko Haraguchi as Hansu's Japanese wife

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

• 2025 30th Critics' Choice Awards:
  • Best Foreign Language Series Nominated
  • Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Anna Sawai) Nominated

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.

External Links

• Official site
• English Wikipedia
• Korean Wikipedia