It took guts and foresight for Apple TV+ to embark, four years ago, well before the South Korean cultural tsunami of
Parasit
eet
Squid Game
, in the adaptation of the novel-river by Min Jin Lee.
To discover
Discover the “Best of the Goncourt Prize” collection
From the miserable countryside of Busan under Japanese occupation in 1915 to the bustling Tokyo of the business of the 1980s, passing through the American dream,
Pachinko
traces the tribulations of four generations of Korean immigrants caught up in the torments of history.
Sumptuous and epic,
Pachinko
and his gallery of relatives, seducers, mafia yakuza evoke as well
Gone with the Wind, The Lover
as
The Godfather
.
In the production, Kogonada
(After Yang)
and Justin Chon (
Blue Bayou
, melodrama noticed at Cannes) combine and sublimate the romantic and the intimate.
Duty of memory
The common thread of this journey between eras is called Sunja.
As a little girl, she grew up in Yeongdo, adored by her father, whose cleft lip and clubfoot made him an outcast.
His parents' dilapidated boarding house is…
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