Best Film, International People’s Choice Award, Toronto International Film Festival 2025
Man-su leads a happy life. He has a stable job, a beautiful wife named Miri, and a peaceful family. That is, until the day he is laid off. From that moment, his life begins to unravel. The job hunt proves grueling, his confidence plummets, and hardship steadily closes in. Seeking work as a paper manufacturing specialist, Man-su realizes that his competitors are far more skilled than he is—and he decides to handle this situation in an outrageous way.
Park Chan-wook born 23 August 1963 is a South Korean filmmaker and former film critic. Widely regarded as a leading figure in South Korean and 21st-century world cinema, he is known for films that blend crime, mystery, and thriller elements with other genres, noted for their cinematography, framing, black humor, and often brutal subject matter. Park came to prominence with his acclaimed third directorial effort, Joint Security Area (2000), which became the highest-grossing film in South Korean history at the time and which Park himself prefers to be regarded as his directorial debut. Oldboy (part of the trilogy) in particular is regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, and helped establish Park as a well-known director outside his native country. Most of Park's work following The Vengeance Trilogy was also commercially and critically successful both in South Korea and internationally, such as Thirst (2009), The Handmaiden (2016), which earned Park the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and Decision to Leave (2022), which won the Best Director award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
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