Pachinko: parents' guide

Men try to sexually assault a young woman until she is rescued, and after the 1923 earthquake a mob burns a building with Koreans trapped inside. A singer kills herself with a knife, a businessman later takes his own life, and a wife shows bruises.

The f-word appears in several forms but not constantly; Plugged In counted one, in the subtitles, in the season 2 premiere. Milder words such as the s-word, 'damn,' 'hell' and 'bastard' come up. Much of the dialogue is subtitled Korean and Japanese.

Adults kiss, and a few brief sex scenes in season 1, including a young couple in the woods, show no nudity. Plots include an affair and a pregnancy outside marriage, and sex work comes up in the story.

Adults smoke, especially in the 1980s scenes, and drink liquor and wine, sometimes to drunkenness. A young woman is shown in a drug haze, and a mother brews illegal rice wine to feed her children.

Emotional and sometimes harrowing: an earthquake and fire with bodies in the rubble, a racist massacre, wartime bombing and a man badly burned at Nagasaki, a young woman's painful death from AIDS, and a father dying of illness after prison.