{"id":32343,"date":"2025-12-17T00:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=32343"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:35:28","slug":"no-other-choice-exclusive-video-interview-with-star-lee-byung-hun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=32343","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Other Choice&#8221; : Exclusive Video Interview With Star Lee Byung-hun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cinemadailyus\">Check out more of our YouTube Channel\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Adriano Ercolani<\/b> : Italian Film Critic and <a class=\"google-anno\" href=\"#\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">\u00a0<span class=\"google-anno-t\">TV<\/span><\/a> Author living in New York since 2011. Critics Choice Association member. Graduated in History of Cinema in Rome, he works as a freelance correspondent for some of the most important Italian outlets like Hollywood Reporter Italy, Comingsoon.it, Cinefilos.it and Ciak Magazine. He started working as a film critic almost thirty years ago: in his career he attended the most important Film Festivals (Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, New York Film Festival, Tribeca) and conventions (San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic-Con, Disney D23). All over the years he has interviewed some of the most important contemporary authors like Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Peter Jackson, Alexander Payne, Joel and Ethan Coen, Kathryn Bigelow, Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig, Jane Campion). In 2009 he interviewed Christiane Kubrick and Ian Harlan inside Stanley Kubrick\u2019s private office. Other than movies he is fond of American literature and basketball. Los Angeles Lakers fanatic. He lives in New York with his wife and his bossy 5-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32750 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/No-Other-Choice-poster.png\" alt=\"No Other Choice \" width=\"920\" height=\"1248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/No-Other-Choice-poster.png 920w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/No-Other-Choice-poster-221x300.png 221w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/No-Other-Choice-poster-755x1024.png 755w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/No-Other-Choice-poster-768x1042.png 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/No-Other-Choice-poster-696x944.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>@Courtesy of NEON<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plot<\/strong>: After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><b>Director<\/b> : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0661791\/?ref_=ttrv_fcr_2_1\">Park Chan-wook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Producer<\/b> : Jisun Back, Mich\u00e8le Ray-Gavras, Alexandre Gavras, Park Chan-wook<\/p>\n<p><b>Screenwriter<\/b> : Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar, based on the novel &#8216;The Ax&#8217; by Donald E. Westlake<\/p>\n<p><b>Distributor<\/b> : NEON<\/p>\n<p><b>Production Co<\/b> : CJ ENM Co., CJ Entertainment, Moho Film<\/p>\n<p><b>Rating<\/b> : Not Rated Yet<\/p>\n<p><b>Genre<\/b> : Comedy, Crime, Drama<\/p>\n<p><b>Original Language<\/b> : Korean<\/p>\n<p><b>Release Date (Theaters)<\/b> : December 25, 2025, Limited<\/p>\n<p><b>Runtime<\/b> : 2h 19m<\/p>\n<p><b>If you like the interview, share your thoughts below!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/adrianoercolani73gmail-com\/\">Check out more of Adriano\u2019s articles.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Here\u2019s the trailer of No Other Choice:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"HKZpuG_ezvY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NO OTHER CHOICE - Official Trailer - In Select Theaters Christmas\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HKZpuG_ezvY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out more of our YouTube Channel\u00a0 Adriano Ercolani : Italian Film Critic and \u00a0TV Author living in New York since 2011. 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Graduated in History of Cinema in Rome, he works as a freelance correspondent for some of the most important Italian outlets like Hollywood Reporter Italy, Comingsoon.it, Cinefilos.it and Ciak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3044,"featured_media":32751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1118,196,9784,16696,1593,28024,8444],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;No Other Choice&quot; : Exclusive Video Interview With Star Lee Byung-hun<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No Other Choice : After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=32343\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;No Other Choice&quot; 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