Pachinko Season 2: Apple Renews The Series For Season 2 Here What We Know About Release
Pachinko Season 2: Apple TV+ has decided to renew for a second season Pachinko, a series that tells the story of four generations of a Korean family, inspired by the bestselling novel of the same name written by Min Jin Lee. The series opens with the scene of a rural village where a girl is born. The narrator tells viewers that the newborn creature is destined to grow and carry the legacy of her family on his shoulders. Beginning in the early 1900s, Pachinko’s story follows a poor family in Korea as they leave their country trying to survive, to face racial discrimination in Japan. Jumping between past and present, he explores the challenges the family faces at different historical moments, anticipating a story that has an epic reach and a deeply intimate emotional impact. The protagonist of the novel is a woman named Sunja. The story starts from the moment her parents met to when Sunja is an elderly woman in Japan. The trailer focuses on Sunja, from birth to old age, reflecting on how her choices have shaped the destiny of her entire family. Pachinko is a multicultural production with dialogue in Korean, Japanese and English.
Pachinko Season 2 Star Cast
Pachinko is played by Oscar-winning actress Yuh-Jung Youn as Older Sunja, South Korean actor and singer Lee Minho as Hansu, Jin Ha as Solomon, Minha Kim as Teenage Sunja, Anna Sawai as by Naomi, Eunchae Jung as Young Kyunghee, Inji Jeong as Yangjin, Jimmi Simpson as Tom Andrews, Junwoo Han as Yoseb, Kaho Minami as Etsuko, Steve Sanghyun Noh as Isak, Soji Arai as Mozasu and Yu-na Jeon as Young Sunja.
Pachinko is written and produced by Soo Hugh (The Terror, The Killing), who created the series and serves as showrunner. Kogonada and Justin Chon are executive producers and directors, having directed four episodes each. Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer are executive producers of Media Res, Theresa Kang-Lowe is executive producer of Blue Marble Pictures, and Dani Gorin of Media Res is co-executive producer, along with Richard Middleton , David Kim and Sebastian Lee. Hugh said:
Words cannot express my joy in being able to continue to tell the extraordinary story of this indomitable family. I am grateful to the fantastic team at Apple and Media Res studio for believing and supporting this series and to our passionate fans who cheered for us. To be able to continue working with this fantastic cast and crew is a real honor.
