Pachinko
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Aftergunning it last week,Pachinkotook its foot off the pedal for Chapter Fourteen.
What incentive would the firm have to call in the loan and lose Abes business?
Has anyone heard from Abe after Solomon leaked the news of the buried bones?
What is going on?
He has that look of someone whose life is on the verge of changing.
Kim takes the girl but doesnt look convinced.
When he gets home, a carefully arranged tray of food awaits him.
The next day, the results of Wasedas entrance exam come out.
The familys joyful tone turns hushed.
Yangjin suggests they seek out Hansus help, but Sunja and Noa dont want to.
Noa proposes getting a job near the school, but Sunja doesnt want him overworked again.
She tells her son not to worry: She will figure something out without Hansus help.
Later that night, an idea strikes her.
Yangjin asks about the restaurant, and Sunja looks sad.
Awake in bed, Noa listens to the houses movement.
Meanwhile, Hansu is having his own problems.
The more intricatePachinkos plots get, the more present this kind of instrumental scene becomes.
This is the same bang out of vagueness that ails Solomons own storyline with Yoshii decades later.
Consider the heavy-handed exposition of that scene in contrast to Yoseb watching quietly as Kyunghee washes Kims bloodied shirt.
Even the dialogue between Hansu and his father-in-law in the following scene has a more deft subtext.
Whatever Hansus opinions, his father-in-law will go ahead with his support for Kurogane-san, the aspiring politician.
But Sunja has other ideas about what might be on Noas mind.
She picks him up from work to take him to the tofu stall.
But Osaka, their neighborhood, is not it: This cant be, is not, Noas heaven.
To this viewers immense pleasure, when Chapter Fourteen opens, Sunja and Kato are drinking margaritas.
Not everyone is having such a good day, though.
But I can already see holes in Mozasus plan.
For one thing, this P.I.
never did find Hana last season it was because of Solomon that they found her.
Whats more, he offers the P.I.
He has come to deliver some pictures of Naomi with a man: Her other boyfriend, Kunizane Tsuyoshi.
Solomon calls Naomi right away, and asks to see her tonight, as Sugihara had advised.
She brushes him off, saying shell see him on the weekend.
Not convinced, Solomon follows her into a fancy-looking restaurant, where she has dinner with the Kunizane family.
To Solomon, this is what makes the whole thing unforgivable.
He tells her as much later, in his apartment.
Naomi explains that her family has always banked on her marriage to Tsuyoshi.
Maybe, Solomon sadly says, if you werent you and I werent me.
I have to admit something here.
Or I would, were it not for what Solomon does next.
He asks Naomi to call in Abes loan.
He just wont let go of this, though Naomi asks him to try.
My question for Solomon is: Why dont you focus ongetting a job?
