Key Highlights
- Related Stories News Oscars 2026 International Feature Film Submissions By Country – A List Of 91 Declared Submissions News Deadline Launches Contenders Film: Los Angeles Streaming Site Starring Lee Byung-hun, the film tells the story of Man-soo, a loyal company man who is laid off by the new owners of the paper mill where he has worked for 25 years.
- But unemployment does not sit well with Man-soo, and the competition in his specialist area is fierce, so he settles on an unusual solution.
- Speaking at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International award-season event, director Park said there were “many reasons” why the book appealed to him.
- “One of them being that it’s a story about a man who is fired by company and who feels that, because of that, his life and his family’s life has been destroyed.
- But instead of taking revenge on the boss or the executives at the company or filing a lawsuit or perhaps even [joining a labor union], he chooses something more unexpected.
