And crime is definitely an element of that family, but at the heart it is a story about, “What does a family become? What are the choices a family makes?” And so that was definitely a big inspiration for us in the writer's room, especially the second film. Godfather II in lore has now become a crime story, but when you actually watch the movies, especially the first two movies, it's a family story. When I pitched this to Apple and the buyers, was one of the references that I said. Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy was a key influence for Hugh, who was specifically inspired by The Godfather Part II to see how Coppola integrated the Corleone family past with the present. The show jumps back and forth between two main timelines: Sunja’s youth and her grandson’s return in the 1980s. Lee’s Pachinko unfolds linearly, but Hugh’s interpretation frames the story first through Solomon, Sunja’s Japan-born grandson, who returns to Japan for work.
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One major difference between the book and the TV show is how it’s told.
Marlon Brando in 'The Godfather.' | Paramount Pictures But other changes were inspired by Hugh’s own historical research and her desire to tell a story that honored the experience of Korean immigrants who experienced discrimination in Japan in the 1900s.Īs Season 1 of Pachinko aired, Hugh spoke to Thrillist about what inspired the many differences between the book and the show, and why it was so important for her to have that killer opening-credits sequence. Creator and showrunner Soo Hugh ( Under the Dome, The Terror) originally envisioned Pachinko as four seasons as such, the first season only covers about one-fourth of the book. Some of these changes came from the series' development.
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Though the bones of the story remain the same, adapting a 500-page novel into an eight-episode series necessitated many changes.
At the same time, Pachinko chronicles an older Sunja, now a grandmother (played by Youn Yuh-jung) who must face her past after her grandson, Solomon (Jin Ha), returns home. Over the course of eight episodes, the audience sees a teenage Sunja (Minha Kim) become the mistress of a high-class Korean fishmonger, a wife to a sickly pastor, and a mother raising two Korean sons as an immigrant in Japan. Like the book, Pachinko tells the story of a family legacy, starting with Sunja, a young girl born to modest parents who run a boardinghouse in Japanese-occupied Korea in the early 1900s. When considering the many influences that went into making the new Apple TV+ drama Pachinko, one must start at the source: Min Jin Lee’s bestselling family epic.
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