Park Chan-wook’s new thriller, “No otherโ Choice,” surged to the top of the Southโค Korean box office during the September 26-28 weekend, โearning $3.5 million from โค463,843 admissions across 1,538 screens. The film’s debut marks a significant win for Korean cinema amid a competitive landscape featuring both domestic and Japaneseโ releases.
Theโค strong opening for “No Other Choice” signals continued audience interest in director Park’s distinctive style and narrative โคcomplexity.โฃ The film centers on Lee plays Man-su, a laid-off paper manufacturing specialist who resorts to serial murder to eliminate his competitors for a single job opening, onyl to discover the position exists to supervise AI testing. The weekend’s top ten films collectively grossed $9.6 million,a ample increase fromโ the previous weekend’s โฃ$5.7 million, indicating aโ revitalizedโ market.
Japanese โanimated feature “Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze Arc” followed in second place with $2.5 millionโฃ from 311,715 admissions on 1,064 screens,bringing it’s five-day total to $3.5 million. The film adapts the โ”Reze” arc of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s popular manga and features the voices of Reina Ueda, Fairouz Ai, Tomori Kusunoki, and Maayaโฃ Uchida.
“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie:โฃ Infinity Castle” secured the third position with $907,483 โ(116,882 โadmissions), pushing its โฃcumulative earnings to $38.5 million.
“The Ugly,” directed by Yeon Sang-Ho, landed in โฃfourth placeโค with โค$671,532 (90,002 admissions), raising its total to $6.6 million. โขThe film stars Park Jeong-min, Kwon Hae-hyo, Shin Hyun-been,โข Im Seong-jae, and Han โJi-hyun, and follows a man investigating his โmother’sโค disappearance.Rounding โขout the top ten โwere “Bread Barbershop: The Bakerytown Baddies” ($386,132), Studio ghibli’s “Princessโ Mononoke” ($134,317, for a total of $1.4 million), Brad Pitt’s “F1” ($73,851, for โa total of $38.7 million), “Octonauts: Above โand Beyond โ- Season 2” ($86,893, for a total of $99,823), “Detective Conan” ($86,221,โ forโค a totalโข of $540,446), and “Frankenstein:โข The Musical Live” ($164,609, for a total ofโค $860,931).
