No Other Choice
2025 · Movie · R · 140 min · ★ 7.5 · 92% critics
After a ruthless job market strips a veteran paper mill manager of his livelihood, he spirals into violence as he struggles to reclaim his dignity. With work becoming harder to find and competition rising, his desperation turns into a dangerous plan that targets rivals.
Based on The Ax
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Details
- Original title
- 어쩔수가없다
- Years
- 2025
- Release date
- 2025-09-24
- Language
- Korean
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 140 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 92/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 (1,084 votes)
- Box office
- $37,089,487
About
You may like No Other Choice if you enjoy tense, dark workplace satire with a slowly worsening spiral and moments of oddball humor; Not for you if you dislike bitter black comedy or graphic, nasty violence, or if you only want Parasite-style class tales.
Pros: darkly funny social satire; sharp lead performance; inventive tone | Cons: humor can feel excessive; pacing uneven; violence is very unsettling
Themes
- based on novel or book
- dark comedy
- remake
- murder
- unemployment
- paper industry
- unemployed
- devoted family man
- murder plot
- amused
Cast & crew
Lee Byung-hun
as Man-su
Son Ye-jin
as Mi-ri
Park Hee-soon
as Choi Seon-chul
Lee Sung-min
as Gu Bum-mo
Yeom Hye-ran
as Lee A-ra
Cha Seung-won
as Ko Si-jo
Oh Dal-su
as Detective #1
Kim Woo-seung
as Si-won
Choi So-yul
as Ri-won
Kim Hae-sook
as Ok Sang-yeo
Directed by Park Chan-wook