‘Pachinko’ showrunner Soo Hugh has a message: “These stories are not a risk.”
a show that spans generations and continents and uses three different languages, wasn’t an easy sell from the start. “Who’s going to buy a show that’s told in three languages, that’s going to be filmed mostly outside of America?” Hugh says she wondered.
Apple TV+ eventually signed on for the show, which hit the streaming service on March 25 and has been met with critical acclaim. The series spans multiple generations of a family that begins with a young woman growing up in a Japan-occupied Korea who has to make difficult choices for her family after she finds herself pregnant by a married man. The story explores family responsibility, destiny, identity, and more through this sweeping drama set in Korea, Japan, and the U.S.
Eventually, Hugh and her team had to accept they couldn’t make a show abroad as they would have in the U.S., and had to come up with a new way of producing a show internationally. “If you’ve ever said to me that I was going to have to reinvent filmmaking, I would have said, ‘What are you talking about?’” says Hugh, “but I think as we do more and more of these global shows, these are the conversations we’ll have to have.
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