A passion project for many years, Park’s No Other Choice was initially based on Donald E. Westlake’s novel The Ax and evolved into a remake of  Costa Garvas’s adaptation of that novel. An American company buys out the paper company where Man-su has worked for 25 years, and he is abruptly laid off, threatening his comfortable lifestyle. The job market is desperate, and perhaps the only way to get a worthy job at another paper company is to kill the man who currently possesses it. “With humour blacker than black bean noodles, the film is a masterful work of cinema which might well be Park’s masterpiece” —Time Out. South Korea’s Official Submission to the 98th Academy Awards.