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No Other Choice

NEW RELEASE
    Part of
  • BAM Film 2026
Directed by Park Chan-wook (2025)
With Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won
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.

UPCOMING Screenings

      RUNNING TIME

      139min

      VENUE

      Peter Jay Sharp Building
      BAM Rose Cinemas

      FORMAT

      DCP

      LANGUAGE

      In Korean with English subtitles

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      General Admission: $17
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