What is Pinocchio about?
In-ha and Ha-myeong become reporters for different reasons: one aspires to follow in her mother's footsteps and the other seeks to do honest news.
Pinocchio (2014)
Aspiring reporters navigate a gritty news world, chasing truth with earnest determination and a touch of melancholy.
Suspenseful. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Netflix.
Pinocchio parents guide
It stays inside its TV-14, with no sex or nudity and mild language.
Rated TV-14, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 7.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- None noted
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Cast and crew
Created byJo Soo-won
StarringPark Shin-hye, Lee Jong-suk, Kim Young-kwang, Lee Yu-bi, Jin Kyung, Lee Pil-mo
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