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Dir Park Chan-wook | South Korea | 2025 | 139 mins | Rating TBC | Korean, English
Longtime paper-industry veteran Yoo Man su loses his job after 25 years, upending his stable family life with wife and children. Humiliated and unable to find new work, Man-su becomes desperate to secure a position, so desperate that he hatches a dark, violent plan: he will eliminate his competition, murdering candidates to guarantee a vacancy just for him. As his moral collapse accelerates, the film becomes a biting satire of corporate cruelty, economic insecurity and the brutal pressures of survival in a cynical system.
Starring Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS
Venice FF: Nominee, Best Film
Blue Dragon South Korean Film Awards: Winner, 7 awards inc Best Film, Director, Actress; Nominee, 7 awards inc Best Screenplay, Actor, Cinematography
TIFF: Winner, Int'l People's Choice Best Film
Gotham Awards: Nominee, Best Int'l Film, Screenplay, Lead Performance

REVIEWS
"The latest exhibit in the mounting body of evidence suggesting Park Chan-wook may be the most elegant filmmaker alive." Jessica Kiang, Variety
"With humour blacker than black bean noodles, the film is a masterful work of cinema which might well be Chan-wook's masterpiece." ★★★★★ John Bleasdale, Time Out
"Not just Park's funniest film, but his most humane, too – and that's quite something for a comedy as violent as this one." ★★★★★ Nicholas Barber, BBC"