Originally published February 24, 2022. Updated February 25, 2022.
Apple TV has just dropped the trailer for itslavish adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s New York Times bestseller Pachinko. Starring Minari‘s Academy Award-winner Yuh-Jung Youn, Lee Minho, Jin Ha, and Minha Kim, you can check out the epic looking trailer here…
Filled with universal themes of family, love, triumph, fate and resilience, the series chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive. Starting in South Korea in the early 1900s, the story is told through the eyes of a remarkable matriarch, Sunja, who triumphs against all odds. It juxtaposes her story with that of her grandson, Solomon, in the 1980s.
Pachinko stars Soji Arai as Mozasu, Jin Ha as Solomon, Inji Jeong as Yangjin, Minha Kim as teenage Sunja, Lee Minho as Hansu, Kaho Minami as Etsuko, Steve Sanghyun Noh as Isak, Anna Sawai as Naomi, Junwoo Han as Yoseb, Jung Eun-chae as Young Kyunghee, Jimmi Simpson as Tom Andrews, Yu-na Jeon as young Sunja, and Academy Award-winning actress Yuh-Jung Youn as older Sunja.
Pachinko streams on ApplecTV+ from March 25th, 2022.
