James Delingpole James Delingpole

Must-watch TV: Apple TV+’s Pachinko reviewed

The Koreans, it turns out, had it worse under the Japanese occupation than even the Irish did under the British

Sungkyu Kim (Kim Chang-ho), Eunchae Jung (Kyunghee) and Minha Kim (Kim Sunja) in Apple TV+'s Pachinko 
issue 31 August 2024

Pachinko is like an extended version of the Monty Python ‘Four Yorkshiremen’ sketch (‘I used to have to get out of shoebox at midnight, lick road clean, eat a couple of bits of coal gravel’) relocated to mostly 20th-century Japan and Korea. There’s so much misery it makes Angela’s Ashes look like Pollyanna.

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