When “Pachinko” showrunner and creator Soo Hugh was first sent the book on which the show is based while she was working on the AMC series “The Terror,” her initial reaction was one of hesitation.
“When I read the back of the novel, and it says Japan and Korea, my stomach sank, I was like, ‘Please don’t let me love this book because I don’t want to do another long, long international production,’” Hugh said. “And then inevitably, what happens is you read the book and you just tumble into those stories and the characters and it really takes a grip of you.”