Pachinko

Min Jin Lee 2017

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
Korea Japan generations immigration

Our Take

Four generations of a Korean family in Japan, where they will never be Japanese regardless of how many generations pass. Lee traces the cost of that exclusion through a century of Korean history without a single false note of consolation. Sunja's sacrifice is the foundation every subsequent generation builds on and does not know about.

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