No Other Choice (2025)
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- Synopsis:
- Yoo Man-Soo (Lee Byung-Hun) is married to Mi-Ri (Son Ye-Jin) and they have two children. They own their home that they bought with difficulty. Yoo Man-Soo has been working at a paper company for 25 years. He feels comfortable and satisfied with his life, but he is suddenly fired from his job. He struggles to find a new job to protect his family and his house.
- Actors:
- Byung-hun Lee, Ye-jin Son, Hee-Soon Park, Sung-min Lee, Hye-ran Eom, Seung-won Cha, Yeon-suk Ahn, Dal-su Oh, Lee Seok-hyeong, Yoon Ga-yi, Min-sik Choi
- Directors:
- Chan-wook Park
- Producers:
- Chan-wook Park
- Writers:
- Chan-wook Park, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar, Donald E. Westlake
- Aka:
- 徵人啟弒
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Korea
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Where Survival Meets Delusion - No Other Choice review by griggs
Few directors mine absurdity from despair quite like Park Chan-wook. No Other Choice turns job loss into a capitalist horror show, where survival and self-image blur until both are lethal. Lee Byung-hun’s Man-su is a paper executive who takes redundancy personally — so personally he starts eliminating the competition. What follows is part midlife crisis, part murder farce, all dressed in Park’s usual elegance and jet-black humour.
The film is equal parts humorous and exhausting, a satire wound so tightly it sometimes snaps. Beneath the slapstick and strings lies something genuinely tragic: a man who’d rather kill than change, in a system that rewards the impulse. Son Ye-jin brings warmth and weary logic as the wife left to pick up what’s left.
Stylish, savage, and strangely sympathetic, No Other Choice proves Park can still find humanity amid the bloodletting of modern ambition.