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no other choice

  • Centrestage 33 Don Street Invercargill, Southland, 9810 New Zealand (map)

WEDNESDAY 18 March
NO OTHER CHOICE
Directed by Park Chan-wook
2025 | M | 2 hours 19 mins | South Korea | Korean


Doors open at 6:30pm.
Screening starts at 7pm sharp.

No Other Choice is a darkly comedic crime thriller from acclaimed director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy), starring Lee Byung-hun (I Saw the Devil).

After being unemployed for several years, a once-successful man finds himself increasingly desperate as financial strain and wounded pride erode his sense of identity. With prospects dwindling and pressure mounting at home, he convinces himself there is only one way forward. His solution? Eliminate the competition.

What begins as a calculated plan to secure a new job spirals into a morally unhinged descent, where ambition, humiliation and survival collide. Blending razor-sharp satire with mounting suspense, No Other Choice skewers modern anxieties about work, status and masculinity, asking just how far someone will go when they believe the system has left them behind.

Darkly funny, stylish and unsettling, this is a thriller that turns everyday desperation into something dangerously extreme.

Producer: Park Chan-wook
Screenplay: Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Jahye Lee
Music: JoYeong-wook
Cinematography: Kim Woo-hyung
Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Yoo Yeon-seok, Yeom Hye-ran, Lee Sung-min

 
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