Never Ending Peace and Love

Nov 14, 2003

0h 28m

★ 0.0

Overview

"Never Ending Peace and Love" (or "N.E.P.A.L.") is part of the South Korean omnibus film "If You Were Me" (2003). Comprising six short films directed by six prominent Korean directors and commissioned by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, "If You Were Me" deals with discrimination in the country. The directors were given free rein with regards to subject and style. Park Chan-wook's short tackles the theme of human rights abuses towards foreign laborers in Korea, telling the sory of a Nepalese woman named Chandra who spent six years in a mental hospital after she was mistakenly accused of losing her mind.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Chungeorahm Film

National Human Rights Commission of Korea

Korean Film Council

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Cast

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Chandra Kumari Gurung

Lama Kanchan Maya

Nepalese Businessman

K.P. Sitoura

Police Box (Chief)

Oh Dal-su

Senior Police Officer

Jeong Seok-kyu

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Never Ending Peace and Love

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