Pachinko
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In 1931, Sunja arrives at Osaka station, where she meets Yoseb, Isaks brother.
The streets are dark, crowded, and noisy.
The couples sit down to eat, and Kyunghee says shes prepared something special for the occasion.
Seeing this, Sunja cries, clearly still bereft at the sudden separation from her mother.
Later that night, Yoseb complains to Kyunghee that he doesnt know what his brother was thinking marrying Sunja.
Not to mention, Sunja is much further along in her pregnancy than anyone expected.
Yoseb speculates that perhaps Suja trapped Isak.
Isak opens up to Sunja in bed that night.
A month later, Sunja is still getting used to her life in Osaka.
Sunja sobs, asking Kyunghee when the ache of missing goes away.
She confesses that she feels foolish in the face of Sunjas courage and tenacity.
Instead of scolding Kyunghee, Sunja is kind.
The women are elated as they return home, laughing as they clutch each others arms.
But their joy is short-lived when Kyunghee sees a stormy-faced Yoseb waiting in front of their home.
Yoseb feels slighted by the womens action, despite his inability to handle the problem himself.
In a different home in Osaka, Koh Hansu greets the pawn-shop owner Sunja sold her pocket watch to.
How did Koh know that Sunja would sell the watch, the pawn-shop owner asks.
Meanwhile, in 1989, Sunja wanders through the modern yet still somehow familiar fish market in Busan.
Same old money-savvy Sunja, it seems.
Sunja turns to her son then and asks if they can return home.
Sunja insists shed still like to go home to Japan.
After all, she knows that she can come back now.
Its a quiet moment of bittersweet reclamation.
Busan has changed; her parents and Donghee are dead.
Sunja can go home, whether its to Korea or Japan, as she likes.
Meanwhile, Solomon is blacklisted at every major Japanese bank for his snafu with the Korean landowner.
He sees Naomi at a party, who tells him that she saw him dancing in the station.
What was that about?
Solomon says that at that moment, he felt he could fly away.
Again, Solomons theme of his struggle to defy gravity returns.
Naomi points out that he didnt fly away, and Solomon agrees.
It remains futile to make a run at buck against the seeming laws of nature.
Then, their previously flirty conversation takes a turn for the tense.
Naomi asks Solomon who Hana is.
It turns out shes been eavesdropping on his phone conversations in the office.
This comment puts Solomon on the defensive.
The conversation ultimately ends with Naomi getting up abruptly, leaving Solomon alone.
Solomon goes looking for Hana in a more blue-collar area of Tokyo per a friends snide tip.
Instead, Solomon runs into a man named Haruki, who once knew Solomons father.
Clearly, the money is a severe and offensive misstep as Harukis face hardens.
If Solomon doesnt come to find her soon, itll be too late.
