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Pachinko Season-Premiere Recap: Family Ties
Sunja runs into trouble with the law, but it leads to an important revelation.
To be completely clear, melodrama is a compliment in my book, and I’m suggesting we place Pachinko in the genre to emphasize how it works within a narrative tradition that has consistently aimed to represent the scope of women’s lives. The boys, Noa and Mozasu, seem to pick up on Kim’s friendliness; they exchange knowing looks before a fleet of American planes drop flyers written in Japanese all over the market, threatening Japan to surrender before things get worse. He tries a college acquaintance on the phone — it’s a no-go — and later goes to lunch with his old friend, Tetsuya, who breaks the news that, while he has managed to raise the extraordinary sum of zero yen for his fund, Abe-san is receiving the lavish Japan’s Businessman of the Year Award that very same night.
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