Apple TV+’s Pachinko: Soo Hugh, Michael Ellenberg, Theresa Kang, Minha Kim, Jin Ha and Lee Minho in Conversation with Laura Kim

Apple TV+’s award-winning and globally acclaimed sweeping drama series Pachinko earned 11 international awards including a Peabody Award, an American Film Institute Award, a Critics Choice Award and a Gotham Independent Film Award. Based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, Pachinko, told in three languages — Korean, Japanese, and English, is a deeply moving story of love and survival across four generations, told through the eyes of a remarkable matriarch, Sunja. In season two, the parallel stories pick up in Osaka in 1945, where Sunja is forced to make dangerous decisions for her family’s survival during World War II, and in Tokyo in 1989, which finds Solomon exploring new, humble beginnings. Go behind the scenes of this remarkable production with creator / writer / executive producer Soo Hugh, executive producers, Michael Ellenberg on behalf of Media Res and Theresa Kang, for Blue Marble Pictures, and actors Minha Kim, Jin Ha and Lee Minho in conversation with Laura Kim. They will discuss the authenticity portrayed throughout the series, the rewards of adapting a beloved bestseller for the screen, what inspired the actors’ masterful interpretations of their characters, and the show’s legacy as “a show whose groundbreaking vision of Korean history will be remembered as a television landmark” (NPR).