Pachinko (TV Series) Chapter Four (2022) User Reviews

Amazing... This episode was art.

[ianrogers-69960 · 10/10 · 3 April 2022]

This episode was flawless, every scene layered with multiple narratives all coming together in unison. Story, acting, production... Absolutely incredible.

Colonialism: Does it ever end?

[healerfaith · 10/10 · 1 April 2022]

Pachinko, being a generational story with universal values reminded me of classic television shows of my youth such as Tenko,and The Forsyte Saga. But what keeps me re-watching it is the deep questions it posed through the characters ruminating about the ills of colonization.

"It's too much, living with this hate. Our children will be cursed. How can all this ever end?"

cry

[fanstarscf · 10/10 · 1 April 2022]

When I saw my grandma crying happily when she saw the sea in her hometown, I cried too. That's how people miss their hometown day and night. There is another layer of understanding of falling leaves returning to their roots.

Emotional and filling

[okaforebuka-36775 · 10/10 · 1 April 2022]

It's starting to get fast....3 eps earlier was a little slow and calm...but this one is quiet fast there is sadness,happiness and rage

.when sunja heard the ship horn and started crying wow.... I could not stop myself from feeling wat she feel...imagine leaving ur mom at a younger age to an unfamiliar environmental 😭😭😭😭...sunja hwaiting....

Am not forgetting leeminho.....wish he keeps having more screen ontime he is soo good with his part

And our Oscar winner I give her a tombs up with the rain scene.

Makes me want to cry

[moviesfilmsreviewsinc · 10/10 · 17 July 2022]

Episode 4 of Pachinko starts in Busan 1931. Koh Hansu shows up and confronts Isak while he's being fitted for a suit. It's tense between the two, as Isak opens up about his past, including his deceased brother Samoel. Hansu is not exactly a forgiving man though, telling Isak to get a new suit - even offering to pay for it given the one he's wearing isn't up to scratch. Isak refuses, standing up to the Broker and even throwing shade at him, pointing out how "his son" will have a similar suit in years to come. Isak is a man of faith and unfortunately, Pastor Shin does not take kindly to his idea of taking Sunja as his wife and raising the child as his own. However, he eventually agrees to wed them both, solidifying this bond all the same. Off the back of this, Sunja's mother manages to convince one of the workers down at the docks to give up some rice for her. Of course, that's easier said than done given there needs to be enough left over for the Japanese. Solomon finally understands what his grandmother has been through, along with the harrowing ordeal that Koreans have had to endure at the hands of the Japanese. He's experienced this racial prejudice already, typified by not getting the promotion at the start of the first episode despite being incredibly adept in his role. Now it's becoming increasingly clear that Solomon had been clinging to false hope of a promotion that's never going to come. This works really well to showcase Solomon's character growth, and it's something that's echoed nicely across the season too, juxtaposed against Sunja's storyline, which is of course still the focal point. Pachinko has done well so far to build up strong and defined characters carrying a lot of baggage, although given the book is told in chronological order, there are moments that could have had far bigger emotional weight had this been told in a linear fashion. Kyunghee's death, for example, is just brushed over despite learning she's going to be a focal point in this timeline in the future.