Pachinko follows the twists and turns of a Korean family from the Japanese occupation of Korea, through World War II and beyond. Through each era we focus on different members of the family, their experience of their home in Japan, the families relationships and living in a world where you were ostracised by those around you. 

This was a hard slog emotionally, where I felt every time something was going well, everyone would be knocked down again (very much like a pachinko ball being knocked around the rungs and pegs of a pachinko machine.) The most interesting part was the relationships between the family members. You hated characters, loved others and often sat there thinking “Why!?!?!”