A razor-sharp, darkly comic descent into desperation, No Other Choice is the blistering new film from Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave, Oldboy), returning to the terrain he knows best: moral corrosion, obsession, and the violence lurking beneath everyday life. With surgical precision, Park turns a seemingly ordinary predicament into a relentless psychological pressure cooker.

Led by a commanding performance from Lee Byung-hun, the film follows a man whose carefully ordered life begins to unravel after a sudden professional and financial collapse leaves him scrambling to maintain dignity, stability, and control. As options disappear and compromises mount, rational choices give way to increasingly dangerous calculations, pushing him toward actions he once would have found unthinkable.

Blending pitch-black humor with mounting dread, No Other Choice is both a social satire and a thriller of moral erosion, unfolding with Park’s trademark visual rigor and emotional cruelty. It’s a chilling, often wickedly funny examination of what happens when survival becomes the only principle left—and when the cost of keeping up appearances proves far higher than anyone expects.