‘Pachinko’: What Is the Japanese Arcade Game Featured in the Apple TV+ Series?

The unique word the Apple TV+ series uses as its title, Pachinko, is not Korean. The limited series based on the novel by Min Jin Lee tells the diaspora story of one family across four generations. The storyline setting takes place during the Japanese occupation of South Korea. What does a staple Japanese arcade game have to do with the Pachinko series? And what is a “pachinko”?

Solomon’s father owns an adult arcade parlor in ‘Pachinko’
Audiences get to see how one Korean/Japanese family has managed to thrive throughout the years in the face of adversity and strife. In Pachinko, Sunja (Youn Yuh-jung/ Kim Min-ha) immigrated to Japan with her pastor husband to seek a better life outside of Korea. In the series of trips between the past and present, fans meet Baek Mozasu (Soji Arai). He is Sunja’s son who becomes a wealthy business owner of pachinko parlors.

The pachinko game becomes a central motif in the grand scope of the storyline. Sunja’s family is wealth off thanks to her son’s success in running the parlors. Audiences see how Solomon (Jin Ha) grew up helping keep watch over the players and how to fix the pins in the machine.

Source: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/pachinko-what-is-the-japanese-arcade-game-featured-the-apple-tv-series.html/