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Pachinko

Created by Soo Hugh · 2022–2024 ·

Answer Summary: Is Pachinko worth watching?

Pachinko (2022–2024) earns a 86% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended overall. Created by Soo Hugh; stream on Apple TV+.

Quick Verdict: What is the Celluloid Score for Pachinko?

Calculated from four inputs (Celluloid editorial, Metascore, IMDb and TMDB fan rating). Audience sentiment is shown separately. See how we calculate scores.

86%
Celluloid Score Recommended

Four-input score + separate audience snapshot

97/100Editorial Rating
90%Audience · excluded
84Metascore
8.2IMDb /10
82%Fan Score
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Seasons
2 · 16 episodes
Network
Apple TV+
Streaming
Apple TV+
Cast
Youn Yuh-jung, Lee Min-ho, Kim Min-ha, Jin Ha
Country
United States
Language
Korean

Where to watch Pachinko

Pachinko is available on Apple TV+ — regional notes: Apple TV+ in the United States; Apple TV+ in the United Kingdom; Apple TV+ in Indonesia. Catalog platform tag: Apple TV+.

Where to watch Pachinko by country

Country Streaming on
India Apple TV+
Indonesia Apple TV+
Japan Apple TV+
Malaysia Apple TV+
Philippines Apple TV+
South Africa Apple TV+
South Korea Apple TV+, TVING
Thailand Apple TV+
United Arab Emirates Apple TV+
United Kingdom Apple TV+
United States Apple TV+

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Is Pachinko worth watching?

Yes — Pachinko earns a 86% Celluloid Score. Recommended, created by Soo Hugh and streaming on Apple TV+.

Celluloid Verdict

A ravishing multigenerational epic — intimate and enormous at once — with Youn Yuh-jung's Sunja among the most quietly devastating performances on television.

Celluloid editorial verdict

What is Pachinko about?

Across four generations and three languages, a Korean family's saga unfolds from Japanese-occupied Busan to 1980s Tokyo and New York — a sweeping, time-braided adaptation of Min Jin Lee's novel about exile, endurance and the debts children owe the women who survived.

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Pachinko Review: A Diaspora Epic Told in Three Languages and Four Generations

Apple TV+'s Pachinko braids decades of Korean diaspora history into a single family's endurance, colour-coding its Korean and Japanese dialogue to make the politics of language itself part of the drama.

A ravishing, deeply humane epic of survival and identity — one of the most ambitious and moving series of its era. Extraordinary.

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Yes — Pachinko scores 87% on Celluloid. A ravishing multigenerational epic — intimate and enormous at once — with Youn Yuh-jung's Sunja among the most quietly devastating performances on television. Stream on Apple TV+.