No Other Choice
Thursday, March 5, 2026 - Thursday, March 5, 2026
South Korea’s Academy Awards submission for Best Foreign Film is being hailed by critics as an utter masterpiece and earned a rapturous nine-minute standing ovation at this year’s Venice Film Festival. NO OTHER CHOICE follows one man’s berserk search for a new job after he is abruptly laid off from the paper company where he worked for 25 years. The visionary Park Chan-wook (OLDBOY, DECISION TO LEAVE) helms this captivating black-comedy thriller—one of the most highly anticipated and acclaimed films of the season—adapted from Donald E. Westlake’s 1997 novel THE AX.
Directed by Park Chan-wook
Rated R
Running time 2h 19m