Film
No Other Choice
2025· R· 2h 19m· Comedy· Crime· Thriller
“Would you kill for a job?”
No Other Choice (2025) zeroes in on a veteran paper mill manager's descent into violence after being laid off and publicly humiliated by a callous job market. Director Jane Doe's unflinching lens captures the protagonist's spiral from dignity to desperation, stripping away any romanticism in the portrayal of corporate cruelty and personal resilience. The film eschews moralizing, instead laying bare the raw mechanics of economic determinism and the human cost of systemic failure.
2025-09-24
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Key Crew
DirectorPark Chan-wook
ScreenplayDon McKellar
ProducerAlexandre Gavras
Director of PhotographyKim Woo-hyung
Original Music ComposerJo Yeong-wook
EditorKim Ho-bin
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Details
Released2025-09-24
Runtime2h 19m · R
StatusReleased
StudiosCJ ENM Studios · Moho Film · KG Productions
Budget$12M
Box office$40M
LanguagesEnglish · Korean
CountriesSouth Korea · France
Rating7.5/10 · 1194 votes
Original languageko
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