US EditionNo Other Choice Director Park Chan-Wook: ‘That Is the Challenge of Cinema – How to Communicate Inner Life without Explaining It’
Park Chan-wook’s film adapts a 1997 novel to explore job loss, economic precarity, and masculinity in South Korea with a darkly satirical thriller about a desperate executive.
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The only option (No Other Choice, in English) is a black comedy directed by South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, which turns labor competition into an extreme experience. Its protagonist—a common man, middle-aged, employed for years in the paper industry—loses his job in a context of business restructuring and faces a ruthless and increasingly impersonal labour market.From his early scenes, the film makes it clear that it does not only recreat…
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The Independent (US)Park Chan Wook: ‘The Korean film industry is in a state of great danger’
The acclaimed director of ‘Oldboy’ and ‘The Handmaiden’ speaks to Louis Chilton about the problems facing his country’s filmmakers, his one-time reputation for grotesquerie, and his darkly funny new satire ‘No Other Choice’
No Other Choice review – Park at his most biting and brutal, but not…
Park Chan-wook’s cutthroat satire sees a middle manager resort to desperate measures after he’s laid off from his job at a paper company. In Donald Westlake’s 1997 horror novel ‘The Ax’, a recently laid-off manager at a paper company decides to thin out the competition in the job pool by tracking down and taking out his potential competitors as he vies for a new job. Westlake’s book was written amid the corporate redundancies of ’90s America; it…
The expected film The only option (No Other Choice) reaches the cinemas of the country on January 15th, consolidating itself as one of the most outstanding titles of contemporary Korean cinema.The film obtained three nominations to the Golden Globes 2026 and had its world premiere at the Venice Festival 2025, where it received an enthusiastic welcome from international critics. Official trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sppUZTxOiUMPark Cha…
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