Official Trailer
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- Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-Jin, Park He-soon
- January 23rd 2026
- 139
- Park Chan-wook
Lee Byung-hun plays a paper factory employee who turns to dark, desperate measures to eradicate his competition after being made redundant.
South Korean actor Lee Byung-hun, who is best known to Western audiences as the Front Man in Squid Game, shows off a completely different side of himself in the dark comedy No Other Choice.
Park Chan-wook’s latest film, based on The Ax by Donald E. Westlake, follows Man-su, an award-winning employee who has been loyally working at the same papermaking company for 25 years.
After his company is bought out by Americans, Man-su and many other employees are let go, and they struggle to find new jobs in the paper industry as there are so few vacancies.
After working menial jobs for over a year, Man-su is at risk of losing his beloved house. Desperate to get a job at Moon Paper, he conjures up a plan to identify his main competition and get rid of them to ensure he gets the position.
However, Man-su is not a professional serial killer. He’s an amateur who doesn’t think it through and a coward who often chickens out, which...
