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gregor-samsung · 2 years

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찬실이는 복도 많지 [Lucky Chan-sil] (Kim Cho-hee - 2019)

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sundaynightfilms · 2 years

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Pachinko: Chapter Three, 2022

#pachinko #youn yuh-jung #jin ha #hye-jin park

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cptrs · 1 year

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#pachinko #pachinko: 108 #tvedit #pachinkoedit #kim min-ha #noh sang-hyun #steve sanghyun noh #soji arai #yamamoto mari #youn yuh-jung

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teawiththespleen · 1 year

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Minari (2020)

#minari 2020 #lee isaac chung #han ye-ri #youn yuh-jung #steven yeun #when your mom brings you anchovies and that’s what cracks you #literally 2 whole years after i took the screenshots fully intending to photoset it #sam this was the same day you let me read the reyna calypso fic you were writing <3

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cinemaronin · 2 years

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Canola (2016)

계춘할망 Canola (2016) directed by Chang cinematography by Park Jang-hyuk

#계춘할망 #canola #chang #korean film #korean cinema #stills #asian movie #youn yuh-jung #kim go-eun

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nine-frames · 1 year

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“If you’re alive, things will work out.”

지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들 (Jipuragirado Jabgo Sipeun Jibseungdeul - Beasts Clawing At Straws), 2020.

Dir. & Writ. Kim Yong-hoon | DOP Kim Tae-sung

#beasts clawing at straws #지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들 #kim yong-hoon #south korean film #2020s #youn yuh-jung

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filmy420 · 1 year

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#youn yuh-jung #alan s. kim #minari #2020s #lee isaac chung #lachlan milne

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eggsaladstain · 2 years

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so i really liked season 1 of pachinko overall but i also kind of wished they’d figured out a better way to tell the story in just 1 season with more than 8 episodes

one of the things i struggled with in the book was feeling disconnected from the characters as a whole since it jumped across multiple generations of this one family and once you got to know one family member it seemed to move on to the next family member’s story with little fanfare

conversely, when watching the show, i was immediately drawn to sunja and sympathetic to solomon’s struggles, and i love the way the show jumped back and forth in time so we could see both kim min ha and youn yuh jung’s portrayal of sunja as well as the way her struggles and choices tied directly to her grandson solomon’s life

but starting around episode 6 i feel like sunja got sidelined a bit as the story focused more on solomon and no disrespect but i just don’t think his story is the most interesting in this show and even the emotional beats with hana in the finale kind of fell flat for me because the only other time we saw her was when she was being a bad influence when they were teens and so i never really bought into or cared about their relationship

and i think part of the problem is that it feels like old sunja’s story concluded with her emotional journey back to korea and so once that plotline wrapped up, it felt like she didn’t really have much to do, and in episode 8 especially, it seemed like all youn yun jung was doing was looking sad in the background, which is just such a waste of her talent, though i will say i don’t think i’ve ever seen a granny peel an apple with such gravitas and emotion

and i get that there’s still noa’s story to uncover, which will undoubtedly be fleshed out in season 2 but i feel like this show could’ve told a more cohesive story about belonging and family if it focused solely on sunja because the parts of episode 8 where we see sunja come into her own and the last scene where she triumphantly sells her kimchi were so good and so compelling and i was once again left wanting more of her, more of her story, more of how she turned from a young, naive mother to a weary but loving matriarch and so i was really bummed that we never got to see her learn how to be a mother for the first time or see how her relationship with isak developed and honestly i wish we’d gotten to see that on screen instead of all the agonizing scenes of hana slowly dying

i mean, i get wanting to be true to the source material, but i feel like this is an instance where they could’ve improved on the novel by tightening up the story and honing in on sunja, especially considering the talented actresses they got to play her

all that said, i LOVED the first half of the season and liked the second half well enough and pulling in the real-life stories of women like sunja to end the first season was so poignant and such a lovely, respectful note to end on

#pachinko #min jin lee #kim min ha #youn yuh-jung #kim sunja #kdrama #kdrama meta #meta

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k-star-holic · 1 year

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Lee Seung-gi, Korean Independence Movement

Source: k-star-holic.blogspot.com

#Lee Seung-gi #Korean independence movement #Park Min-young #Contract #Youn Yuh-jung

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passionforfic · 2 years

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Pachinko Book vs Korean Drama

I knew about the Korean Drama adaptation of this novel months before it aired on Apple TV. I was interested in seeing the series and when it aired, I watched it. The 8 episode long drama had documentary elements laced to the story that went back and forth from the past to the "present." The story begins in 1989 with Solomon working at a successful bank in the United States and going to Japan to work at a branch to increase his reputation to go back to New York to get the promotion he was being denied. He arrives to Japan and stays with his family and this is when we see his grandmother. Once she is in the picture, we start looking into her flashbacks. This story telling style chops a lot of the story and leaves the audience that haven't read the book hanging in the air - with too many unanswered questions. This is the main reason why I decided to read the book sooner rather than later.

In order to do justice to the novel, the series should have been longer. And I think it would have worked better if it had gone in chronological order because in order to tie the story of the grandmother to that of the grandson, they changed a lot of things. Kyunghee dies in the series but she didn't die in the novel. In the series they had never gone to Korea after the occupation was over, in the book Sunja did visit Korea a couple of times and so had Mosazu and Solomon. Her mother did move to Japan and in the series Sunja never saw her mother after moving with Isak to Japan. In the series they give a backstory to Hansu that we didn't have in the novel. We knew about the Hansu in his 30s, 40s, up to his 70s since he was an always present force in Sunja's life whether she liked it or not. . . Even Solomon's story was changed too.

The story is named Pachinko because that was the one job Koreans could have and prosper in Japan. Pachinko was also linked to the Korean mafia, so Koreans that ran Pachinko businesses were not seen as respectable. In the novel we can see how this business becomes part of the family life. How Noa tries to avoid it and how Mosazu embraces it in a way that he can maintain himself clean from the mafia. In the series we don't see this. In fact, in the series we hardly see Noa's and Mosazu's stories, their lives were important and directly connected to the title of the novel. The many questions I had were related to these two characters, Isak and Hansu. The novel answered my questions and gave me so much more.

Min Jin Lee's novel tells a compelling story while the series just hints at it in a poorly way. Even as a stand-alone series - even if it hadn't been based on a novel - the series had too many holes in the story, it left us with too many questions. The novel has an open ending, but that's life - it is ongoing - and even so, it felt like we had reached a full circle, we could guess what would happen next.

The series had great performances, but the adaptation could have been better.

I liked the series but the book is so much better.

#pachinko #historical fiction #realistic fiction #korean drama #min jin lee #lee min jin #lee min ho #kim min ha #Youn Yuh-Jung #Jin Ha #Soji Arai #Felice Choi #Jeong In-Ji #Lee Dae-Ho #Noh Sang-Hyun #Han Joon-Woo

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ruleof3bobby · 12 days

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MINARI (2020) Grade: B

They developed each character so equally beautiful, I think one could argue each is the films POV. Loved the composition and acting. The grandma is one of the best written characters I've seen in awhile.