Pachinko, Min Jin Lee Pachinko is the second novel by Korean-American author Min Jin Lee. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. ... Apple's drama series "Pachinko" based on the bestselling novel by Min Jin Lee has been cast. Casting Call: Stars Nab A New Role. Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. The Xorus Patchinko II is a long casting surface lure which has a well-deserved reputation of being one of the all-time top bass lures. In Free Food for Millionaires, her 2007 debut, protagonist Casey Han is fresh out of college and trying to make hard choices about her career, love and friendship, but she’s also the daughter of Korean immigrants, trying to balance her parents’ traditional expectations with her very American lifestyle.. Variety reported that Apple officially announced the casting of Lee Min Ho and five other actors for the “Pachinko” drama series. The cast for Pachinko includes Lee Min-ho (Boys Over Flowers, The Heirs), Jin Ha (Devs, Love Life), Anna Sawai (Fast & Furious 9, Giri/Haji), Minha Kim (Call, After Spring), Soji Arai (Cobra Kai, Legacies) and Kaho Minami (Angel Dust, Household X). From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan’s finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee’s complex and passionate characters–strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis–survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history. Pachinko is an epic historical novel following a Korean family who eventually migrates to Japan.