.shugh100 didn’t want to read ‘Pachinko.’ But once she did, she knew she had to create an adaptation for the screen. Learn more about the 8-part AppleTVPlus series and hear from the cast at the link below.
Before he auditioned for the role, Ha sent his lines to his father, who speaks Japanese. “I was like, ‘Hey, could you just record yourself reading this?’ ” His father also transliterated the lines using Hangul, the Korean alphabet, and sent that to Ha. “So I received the Hangul transliteration of the Japanese, and then I transliterated those Korean characters into English as Roman letters to read.
Ha used that system to eke out a self-tape that ultimately won him the part. Once he signed on to the project, the Japanese study really began. Not only did he have to learn to perform convincingly in Japanese, he also had to learn to speak the multiple Japanese dialects his character would have used in different contexts. “Whenever Soo would pose the question to me of, like, ‘Do you want to do more? Can we go further in the reality of it?’ my answer always was yes,” he says.
The trilingual performances felt radical to me as a viewer, especially coming from an American production company.“It was never a question that it would be in the languages; I don’t understand how else you could tell the story of colonization because language is part of that,” Hugh says. “I just don’t think you can possibly do this story without doing the three languages.”
The cast is a mix of both Korean Americans and South Koreans, all of whom bring their own relationships with Korea’s history to their roles. Lee Minho—who is perhaps best known as the star of the 2009 South Korean TV series—plays Koh Hansu, a fish broker with ties to the yakuza, organized crime in Japan. He hadn’t auditioned for a role in 10 years, but he was drawn to the script because it made him reflect on Korea’s recent history.
Similarly, Minha Kim, who plays teenage Sunja, drew upon her grandmother’s experiences of colonization to inform her performance: “She explained to me what it was like to be a girl in that era. How people actually lived then. I almost could have not found my character if it wasn’t for my grandmother.”
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