Apple TV+'s newest series, "Pachinko," takes place over 70 years in Japan, Korea, and America. Based on the bestselling novel of the same name, the first season of "Pachinko" follows the life of one family and the woman at the center keeping it all together: Sunja.
Viewers see Sunja at three different stages in her life: as a child, a teenager, and an elderly woman. Oscar-winner Yuh-jung Youn plays the eldest Sunja, while newcomer Minha Kim was tasked with portraying teenage Sunja, whose brush with romance sets her on an unpredictable course. "The novel itself is amazing and contains a lot of beautiful stories," Kim says. The 2017 novel, written by Korean-American author Min Jin Lee, was not only a huge bestseller, but it was also a finalist for the National Book Award. "All the individual characters have their own histories, they have their own stories. When their whole stories are combined,...
Viewers see Sunja at three different stages in her life: as a child, a teenager, and an elderly woman. Oscar-winner Yuh-jung Youn plays the eldest Sunja, while newcomer Minha Kim was tasked with portraying teenage Sunja, whose brush with romance sets her on an unpredictable course. "The novel itself is amazing and contains a lot of beautiful stories," Kim says. The 2017 novel, written by Korean-American author Min Jin Lee, was not only a huge bestseller, but it was also a finalist for the National Book Award. "All the individual characters have their own histories, they have their own stories. When their whole stories are combined,...
- 3/23/2022
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
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