The Apple TV+ adaptation of Pachinko, the 2017 best-selling novel by the Korean-American author Min Jin Lee, tells the story of four generations of a Korean family living in a deeply racist Japan. Anna Sawai plays Naomi, a young, Harvard-educated Japanese businesswoman who faces sexism in the male-dominated workplace. The series includes Korean and Japanese languages as well as English. Sawai says she’s especially excited to explore her character’s Japanese roots. Naomi wasn’t in the book that inspired the show, which gives Sawai a bit more flexibility in her portrayal of the character. In Season Two, she says, “we get to see her personal side a little bit more, and we get to know about her family.” —Zack Hauptman