If You Were Me

If You Were Me

2016 · 95 min · ★ 5.0 · Drama

An omnibus movie consisting of three shorts by CHOI Ikhwan, SHIN Yeonsik, and LEE Gwangguk. A delightful dissection of human rights in this day and age through a student who gets punished for wanting to eat deokbokki, a man with delusions of grandeur, an insurance agent who spends a strange day.

Directed by Choi Equan · Written by Lee Kwang-kuk

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