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Song of the Day #6,455: ‘Hold On, I’m Comin” – Sam & Dave

Continuing my countdown of last year’s best films…

Best Films of 2025
#5. No Other Choice

I’ve been unemployed for the better part of a year, dealing with all of the uncertainty that comes with being out of a job, so Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice was particularly impactful right now.

The film follows Yoo Man-su (played by Lee Byung-hun), an executive at a paper company who loses his job and goes to extraordinary lengths to land a new one. Desperate and helpless, he takes the concept of eliminating the competition to a whole new level.

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Song of the Day #6,428: ‘Red Dragonfly’ – Cho Yong Pil

Continuing a look at my favorite movie music scenes of 2025…

Sometimes I’m watching a movie and I get to a particular scene and somewhere in the back of my mind I think, “this is totally going on my year-end music moments list.” Such was the case with a darkly comic encounter in the first half of No Other Choice.

The protagonist, Yoo Man-su (played by Lee Byung-hun), is a career paper company supervisor who loses his job and has no success finding a new one. So he hatches a scheme to identify and eliminate the competition.

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