“Best Supporting Actress” for “Minari” in 2021) for acting stars in the Apple TV+ adaptation of the generation-spanning 2017 novel “Pachinko.” “This role was suitable for my age – she’s 74,” Yuh-jung, 74, told The Post. “I read the script first.
I was very interested in that role and I felt like I needed to play it. Then, I went out and got the book. [I could relate to] her strength, and her determination to survive.” Premiering March 25, “Pachinko” is a family saga covering the years 1910 to 1989 and following Sunja (Yuh-jung) and her family through the decades.Sunja, played in her younger days by Yu-na Jeon (as a child) and Minha Kim (as a young woman), grows up in poverty in a fishing village as her family faces repression during the Japanese colonization and occupation of Korea — until circumstances force her to leave Korea for Osaka, Japan.
Many years later, her grandson, Solomon (Jin Ha), an ambitious employee at a giant international firm who studied in America, returns to his roots in Japan and reconnects with his father Mozasu (Soji Arai) and grandmother Sunja (Yuh-jung) as he grapples with his family legacy.
Meanwhile, Sunja thinks she made the right choice to leave Korea at the time in the 1930s — but in her older years, she feels compelled to make a pilgrimage back to her homeland.“She faced all these difficulties.
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