No Tomorrow (2016)

Original title

섬. 사라진 사람들

Directed by

Lee Ji-seung

Genre

thriller film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

15

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An independent investigator and a cameraman look into reports of disabled men being sold as forced laborers on a remote island. They uncover a system of abuse and exploitation involving local residents.

tensebleakdisturbingsuspensefulgrimsomberclaustrophobicslow-burn

What happens

No Tomorrow (Korean: 섬. 사라진 사람들; RR: Seom. sarajin saramdeul) is a 2016 South Korean film starring Park Hyo-joo and Lee Hyun-wook. The story is loosely based on the 2014 Salt Farm Slavery Incident in the island county of Sinan in South Jeolla Province, in which disabled men were sold as laborers, forced to work without pay, and beaten if they didn't work hard enough; other islanders were complicit in helping the slavers find victims who tried to escape. The real-life investigation was spurred by a letter from one of the victims. In the film, an independent investigator and a cameraman try to unravel the mystery after receiving a tip from an informant. A quote from Bernard Shaw appears in the closing credits: "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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