South Korea Box Office for No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다) (2025)

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No Other Choice
Theatrical Performance (US$)
South Korea Box Office $19,796,798Details
Worldwide Box Office $19,796,798Details
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Synopsis

When a man is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he has worked tirelessly for many years, he grows increasingly desperate in his hunt.

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Movie Details

South Korea Releases: September 24th, 2025 (Limited)
Running Time: 139 minutes
Keywords: Crime Comedy, Comedy Drama, Venice Film Festival 2025
Source:Based on Fiction Book/Short Story
Genre:Black Comedy
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Contemporary Fiction
Production Countries: Republic of Korea
Languages: Korean

Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeScreensPer ScreenTotal GrossWeek
2025/09/26 1 $4,598,745   0     $7,457,578 1
2025/10/03 2 $3,237,519 -30% 0     $12,801,826 2
2025/10/10 3 $1,285,733 -60% 0     $18,130,496 3
2025/10/17 4 $551,805 -57% 0     $19,004,036 4
2025/10/24 5 $329,759 -40% 0     $19,738,990 5
2025/10/31 8 $145,853 -56% 0     $19,796,798 6

Box Office Summary Per Territory

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Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Australia 1/15/2026 00$0
Belgium 2/11/2026 00$0
Germany 2/5/2026 00$0
Italy 1/1/2026 00$0
Japan 3/31/2026 00$0
North America 12/25/2025 $0 0 0 0 $0
Romania 2/13/2026 00$0
Russia (CIS) 12/4/2025 00$0
South Korea 9/24/2025 $4,598,745 0 0 0 $19,796,798 11/5/2025
Spain 1/16/2026 00$0
 
Worldwide Total$19,796,798 11/5/2025

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Leading Cast

Byung-hun Lee   
Son Yejin   

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Production and Technical Credits

Park Chan-wook    Director
Park Chan-wook    Screenwriter
Lee Kyoung-Mi    Screenwriter
Don McKellar    Screenwriter
Jahye Lee    Screenwriter
Donald E. Westlake    Story based on the novel by