No Tomorrow (2016 film)

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.[1] 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."[2]

No Tomorrow
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLee Ji-seung
Screenplay byJang Jae-il, Lee Ji-seung
Produced byHan Dong-hwan, Lee Ji-seung, Ryu Sung-jin
StarringPark Hyo-joo
Bae Sung-woo
Lee Hyun-wook
Ryu Jun-yeol
Distributed byContents Panda
Release date
  • 30 March 2016 (2016-03-30)
Running time
88 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean

Plot

An informant contacts journalist Lee Hye-ri (Park) to report that laborers at a salt farm, who have cognitive disabilities, have actually been enslaved.[3] She and cameraman Jo Suk-hoon (Lee) disguise themselves as documentary filmmakers who are interested in salt harvesting and go to the island where the farm is located. They question the local residents but find them secretive and distrustful.[4] As the pair continues to ask questions, a violent attack occurs in which four people end up dead; the salt farm owner (Choi Il-hwa) and his son (Ryu) go missing along with one worker, while Hye-ri is severely injured and ends up in a coma. Detective Choi (Choi Gwi-hwa) and an investigative police officer (Bae Yu-ram) pick up the case.[5]

Cast

Release & Reception

No Tomorrow was released on March 30, 2016 at 206 theaters around South Korea. It grossed $106,019 at the South Korea box office.[6]

References
  1. Schwartz, William (22 October 2016). "William Schwartz HanCinema's Film Review: 'No Tomorrow'". HanCinema.
  2. "' Island. Disappeared People' Modern-day slavery atrocities in 'Hell Joseon'". OsiNews. 10 March 2016.
  3. Lee, Sol-ip (29 January 2016). "'Island. Disappeared People' movie about the salt farm slavery case opens in February". Welfare News.
  4. Hong, Ji-ye (16 December 2019). "The movie 'Island. Disappeared People' is airing... What is the conclusion of the island's mysterious genocide?". Chubu Ilbo.
  5. "No Tomorrow, 2015". Daum Movies. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  6. "No Tomorrow". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
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