Category: Minari

Film Review: ‘Pachinko’: Grand Family Micro-Tale

Pachinko arcade-style games offer the lowest gambling stakes legally available in Japan. Given its associations with vice, it is not a very prestigious business, but Solomon Baek’s Korean-Japanese family could never afford snobbery. Yet, his father was only able to make a modest success in the pachinko business, and only succeeded at all because of…


Film Review: ‘Minari’: Korean Immigrants Succeed in America by Enduring Like Water Celery

PG-13 | 1h 55min | Drama | 12 February 2021 (USA) “Minari” did for the 2021 Academy Awards what the pop song “Gangnam Style” did for music in 2012; it gave notice to America that Korea can come over here and throw down an artistic gauntlet on our own turf. Not only can Korea play…