Actors Lee Sung-min and Yum Hye-ran mentioned nudity in the film "No Other Choice".
On the afternoon of the 18th, an open talk for the 30th Busan International Film Festival was held at the outdoor stage of the Busan Cinema Center. Among them, the cast of the film "No Other Choice" (director Park Chan-wook) — actors Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Yum Hye-ran and Lee Sung-min — attended with director Park Chan-wook and talked about the work.
"No Other Choice" tells the story of Mansoo (Lee Byung-hun), a salaried worker who felt he had "achieved everything" and was suddenly laid off, and what happens as he prepares his own war for reemployment to protect his wife and two children and to keep the hard-earned house. It is the new work of Korean cinema master Park Chan-wook and drew anticipation for the chemistry of top actors Lee Byung-hun and Son Ye-jin.
In addition to them, the film arouses curiosity with the strong performances of actors such as Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yum Hye-ran and Cha Seung-won. Among them, Lee Sung-min and Yum Hye-ran appear as a middle-aged couple in the film. Lee Sung-min plays Beom-mo, a man who was laid off after 25 years at a belt company, and Yum Hye-ran plays Ara, an aspiring actress who fell in love with Beom-mo at first sight and married him.
Regarding the characters, Lee Sung-min joked, "If you watch the film, you will see my ample back," drawing laughter. The moderator added, "A sexy back appears." Not to be outdone, Yum Hye-ran also said, "You can also see Ara's sexy front," which elicited more cheers.
In "No Other Choice," the meeting of the Beom-mo and Ara couple with Mansoo occupies a considerable portion of the black comedy. Director Park Chan-wook said about this, "My comedic code isn't particularly special. What I keep in mind is that the protagonists' situations are tragic. It could easily become a kind of comedy that makes the audience sneer cynically. Instead, it comes from pity — it's pitiable but clumsy in a way that arises from that."
Lee Byung-hun also added, "The characters in the film perform desperate emotions. Watching such characters objectively makes laughs pop out. The overall sentiment and the film's mood and situations are sad, but viewers on the outside feel very strange emotions that make them chuckle because of the irony. These are stories you can't simply laugh at."
"No Other Choice" opens officially on the 24th. This year's Busan International Film Festival runs around the Busan Cinema Center through the 26th.
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