Pachinko (2022)

FAVORITADO

PERFEITO! Não tenho como reclamar de nada nesse dorama. Sensacional.
O Lee Min Ho entregou tudo na atuação, assim como os outros atores.
A trilha sonora... PERFEITA DEMAIS!
O que mais me emocionou foi no final, quando eles colocam uma breve reportagem dos produtores conversando com as mulheres que inspiraram o livro e a adaptação. Descobri agorinha pouco que esse livro é baseado em fatos reais.
Me emocionei muito com a história dessas mulheres. Eu tô em choque e não faço ideia de como reagir a isso.
A CENA DO TERREMOTO AAAAAA Os japoneses culpando os coreanos POR CAUSA DE UM DESASTRE NATURAL?!!!!!
Eu tenho tanto a falar sobre isso MAS NÃO SEI POR ONDE COMEÇAR AAAAAAA

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história sincera, pesada e interessante

Primeiro, eu li o livro em 2019 e foi o melhor livro que vi no ano, daqueles que dá vontade de ler mais de uma vez. Por isso, eu tinha muitas expectativas sobre o drama. E com certeza essa primeira parte foi muito fiel ao livro, obviamente não tem como colocar tudo, mas os pontos principais da trama estão todos lá.
Eu adoro drama familiar, e posso considera Pachinko como um épico drama familiar coreano. Foi muito melhor do que eu imaginava, a linha cronológica não é linear, então o arranjo que fizeram ficou bem interessante e menos lento. A atuação de todos estava impecável, até o Le Min Ho (que tenho minhas ressalvas com ele), pra mim este se tornou o melhor trabalho dele até agora.
Fizeram um capítulo inteiro para o Hansu e, particularmente, eu achei incrível. No livro nós não sabemos muito sobre ele e trazerem isso pro drama foi uma surpresa muito lega.
Por fim, eu amei do início ao fim, trataram a história com delicadeza e esfregando a realidade daquele tempo pra todos. Os coreanos sofreram muito nas mãos dos japoneses.
Os relatos no final me pegaram de surpresa, foi muito emocionante. Fechou a temporada com chave de ouro.
Aguardando ansiosamente pela próxima temporada.

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Generations

Likes
1. I didnt read the book yet, but i loved the story of Sunja's family, from the time she was born and how she got married, had family, and struggled for a better life. At first I didnt understand why guys were falling all over Sunja but watch the drama and you'll find out why (and the actress is amazing).
2. Surprisingly i find Koh Hansu interesting (not just because he is played by LMH) but because adding one episode about his life (which is not in the book) gave some perspective of who he is now.
3. I wanna know more about what happened to Noa and how Mozasu grows up to be who he is, and Kyunghee. I think i will read the book now coz i cant wait for 4 more seasons how the story ends.

Dislikes
1. I prefer watching young Sunja's journey and not really the present timeline. Mostly because i'm not sold on Solomon. Surprised to see him act like this considering his family's experience. But i think that's the point of the story and he will learn and mature because of this.
2. I dont like Hana so not sure why we had to see one episode about her.

I hope Apple will be able to film all 4 seasons!

Rating: 8.5/10

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Good Enough

Korean-Canadian Drama " Pachinko ", based on the other under the same name, is a mutligeneration story.

The drama has a beautiful cinematography, with moody scenes, misty camera lencses, and the right setting and costumes. The jumping from one era to another, also, was smooth and one could easily distinguish one period from the other.

In addition, the drama is well acted, something that aided the story a lot and didn't let it flop.

However, this first season felt more like an prequel, an introduction to the story, as, just when things started picking up and everything was coming together, it ended.

So, overall, six out of ten.

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Pachinko: The game of life?

I happened to have read the book before I started watching this series, week by week patiently (even though I'm more of a characteristically binge-watcher!) and first things first, i was engrossed in the world presented before my eyes. The cinematography is stunning, and I particularly loved the way they synchronized shots cutting through the different timelines of young unmarried Sunja and grandmother Sunja.
One of my biggest criticisms would be how they handled the relationship development of Sunja and Isak. Both the actors were extremely well suited for their roles, but Isak's character should have been handled in a more authentic way. He was glossed over (in my opinion) to make way for Koh Hansu. Koh Hansu's backstory (which was entirely made up by the shows creator and has nothing to do with the original book) which took up an entire episode, was very jarring, they should have launched it after all the episodes were out, maybe as a season's special or something of a similar fashion. It broke the flow of narration.
That being said, I am still looking forward for the next season.

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A masterful adaptation...

Pachinko, in many ways, was a wakeup call for me. Xenophobia as per a Eurocentric narrative, has always been so intrinsically linked to a difference in the color of your skin, that it was jarring to see it happen to a group of people who are almost visually indistinguishable from their oppressors on the basis of skin color. Even then, it was humbling to see that the human heart is capable of so much hatred, that such experiences are almost universally unifying, irrespective of which side of the globe you're in. You'll always be an 'other' to somebody's 'us'. Nationalities, ethnicities, language and cultural differences are merely human constructs to 'leave other people out'.

With an Oscar Winner and a Hallyu star onboard, the team behind Pachinko could have easily succumbed to letting either of them steal the spotlight, but I'm happy to say it turned out to be the kind of project where the actors serve the story, and not the other way round. Kudos to the team for telling the story with 100% honesty and sincerity!

Within half a standard k-drama runtime, I'm impressed with the number of SO many wonderful cinematic moments of storytelling! And a large part of the credit must be given to the absolutely genius creative decision of telling the story un-chronologically. It's poignant to see parallel intersplices of the past and present within the same episode (like a young Sunja preparing to leave for Japan VS the elderly Sunja packing to revisit her homeland). But it's particularly even more poignant, when the events interconnect across episodes (a nostalgic elderly Sunja tasting her homegrown rice in ep3 VS a young Sunja being fed the same grains of rice, lovingly cooked by her Mum on her bethrothal dinner as perhaps the last meal on her homeland, in ep4). There is so much of bittersweet and poignant context that would have been lost, had the story been told linearly.

Kim Minha as Sunja is nothing short of a revelation, especially in the more emotionally demanding scenes. I felt as invested in her story from the first glance, much like her future suitors. Minha's freckled beauty, husky voice and her acting style sets her apart from cookie cutter k-actresses, and I feel she has a bright future ahead, similar to the likes of Kim Go Eun and Kim Dami. Minha's performance made me feel all of Sunja's desperation, conflict, and bravado. I do think humbly, that her line delivery could see some improvement....

While the story itself is the main meat of the show, it is elevated to the level of a visual feast because of the technical and hardware department. The cinematic vibe and the grand scoring were the absolutely perfect seasonings required for the 8ep serving, satisfying the drama-watcher's heart in me. I do hope Pachinko gets renewed for season 2, as it will be such a shame not to see Sunja's story be completed on this visual medium.

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Pachinlo: história, família e mulheres.

Um resumo dos episódios e do que eu fui achando do drama com spoilers.
Eu queria ter lido o livro antes de ver o drama, mas acho que vai ser bem legal me surpreender e não saber o que me espera na adaptação. Eu gostei muito desse primeiro episódio, ele passa muito bem o que os personagens estão sentindo, o final me deixou bem triste, a transição do passado pro presente é ótima. A história de pachinko é de muita força e já começamos muito bem a mostrar isso. A abertura também eu achei super legal, bem divertida e diferente! Tenho altas expectativas agora que eu comecei.
Pachinko é muito sobre essas mulheres fortes.
Eu nem consigo me expressar sobre a força. É a luta e a história de um povo. É o passado, raízes. Foi lindo, foi libertador e emocionante, os atores estão incrivelmente de parabéns, conseguem nos passar todas essas emoções.
(o elenco de the king em peso no drama né? amo!!!)
O passado do hansu nesse episódio, e que passado, ele não tinha tudo mas também não tinha nada e de um segundo pro outro perdeu tudo e ficou sem nenhum tipo de perspectiva e a morte várias vezes pelos seus olhos.
Que episódio de peso. Pachinko é história e é tão rico!!! Incrível assistir essa produção. Foi renovada para a segunda temporada e espero ansiosamente pela continuação dessa história! Acredito que o Isak não vá aparecer mais infelizmente, gostava bastante dele e agora veremos a força maior ainda da Sujan.

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DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS .

I finished watching ep 4 of this yesterday afternoon and have been thinking about it for a while now. I felt the need that I should put my cents out on this somewhere, so..here am I. I will edit the review once I finish watching the whole of it too.

The story is basically about Japanese colonization of Korea and how (much) it affected the then people, and the generations after. When you look at the broader perspective you will understand this is the story not just about the Japanese Korean issues (rivalry?), but also of all the countries many of us are from. In this biggggg world where the countries are divided into the first, second and third world's, the third world nations are always looked down. And within the same country there is (are) whole pyramid(s) of hierarchy of people - as in who stands where in the society, and then them calling eachother low and roaches. I have seen a world like that. TBH I'm living in one too. So I found this drama very relatable on many levels due to many reasons.

Moving on, this series also deals how one has to (read, is forced to) leave their land, culture, traditions and language in order to survive. Barely survive. These are also somethings we can find on newspapers every single day.

The production value is ✨. The actors, OST, CINEMATOGRAPHY, coloring (are they same?), SCREENPLAY, everything, everything is just so fine you wouldn't wanna move away from it.

I heard the series is a lot different from the original book(which I haven't read yet) and also about the backlash it got in Japan. I need to finish this totally in order to totally understand about the whole situation.

Even if you find it to be a bit slow paced I hope you hang on to it and watch. I'll be back here again after ep 8 and I hope you too will finish it by then.

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