The multigenerational saga of Pachinko will continue at Apple TV+, which has renewed the family drama for a second season. The series comes from creator/showrunner Soo Hugh and executive producers Theresa Kang-Lowe and Michael Ellenberg.
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In the Apple TV+ series Pachinko, Solomon (Jin Ha) speaks Korean, Japanese and English. The show, based on Min Jin Lee’s book, traces four generations of his family from Korea and Japan (as Zainichi Koreans), so all three languages are involved. Ha does not speak Japanese and studied the different dialects with vocal coach Yu-Mi Kang.
“Having lived in Korea and Hong Kong before I came to America with my family, the experiences of being dropped in a foreign place and having to fit in or find myself, that’s hard enough for anyone,” Ha said on a Deadline Contenders panel on Sunday at the Paramount Theatre. “Being an immigrant as well or an Asian American person, was an experience that I felt directly connected to Solomon’s straddling the three different cultures he’s a part of. My grandparents and relatives lived through the colonial era in Korea. My grandparents only spoke Japanese for most of their lives. My dad studied Japanese because of the influence.”
Often Solomon speaks both Korean and Japanese in the same line of dialogue. Pachinko shows the English subtitles in blue when it is translating Japanese and yellow when Korean.
“We knew four years ago it was unusual to sell something that’s trilinguial, epic scale, all Asian cast predominantly,” Kang-Lowe said. “From a creative point of view, you have to tell these stories from the characters’ actual languages.”
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Executive producer Michael Ellenberg also pointed out Ha’s subtle performance changes when he speaks each language.
“The way Solomon moves between those languages, when he’s speaking Japanese he’s one version of himself,” Ellenberg said. “When
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