Sunja takes all manner of buffeting, yet refuses to knuckle under - either to circumstances or the Japanese. The other constant is the Korean indomitability embodied in Sunja who, thanks in no small part to Kim and Youn's memorable performances, is both the show's spine and its beating heart.

Such material exploitation is made all the worse by the vicious anti-Korean bigotry of the Japanese, who called the Korean people 'cockroaches.' When Solomon steps into Japanese boardrooms in 1989, he's still treated as a man with inferior blood who can't really be trusted. A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an 'extraordinary epic' of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). Through all these changes there are a few constants, including the hardship, loss and misery that was Korea's lot after the nation's 1910 annexation by Japan, which proceeded to exploit its resources and workers.

You get death, murder, suicide, love affairs, arrests, diseases, broken homes, broken hearts, fires, earthquakes, a few preposterous coincidences and many intimate moments of great delicacy. They also have a practical value, because while Pachinko is based on a self-contained novel, it is not a mini-series. Nor can I begin to tell you just how much stuff happens over the eight episodes. Buku novel Pachinko diceritakan dalam empat generasi, dari mulai penjajahan Jepang hingga awal tahun 2000an. Time doesn't allow me to do justice to Pachinko's Dickensian profusion of vivid characters, who are beautifully acted to a one and who variously speak in Korean, Japanese or English (complete with color-coded subtitles). Buku Pachinko mengisahkan tentang sebuah keluarga perempuan Korea yang terpaksa bertransmigrasi ke Jepang.

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