No Other Choice
- Thursday March 12, 2026 1:00 PM
- Thursday March 12, 2026 5:00 PM
- Friday March 13, 2026 3:30 PM
- Saturday March 14, 2026 1:00 PM
- Saturday March 14, 2026 5:00 PM
- Sunday March 15, 2026 11:00 AM
- Sunday March 15, 2026 2:00 PM
Directed by Park Chan-wook
R; 139 minutes; Korean with English subtitles
"A masterful work of cinema which might well be Chan-wook’s masterpiece. And given this is the man who directed The Handmaiden that’s saying a lot."—John Bleasdale, Time Out
Paper factory manager Mansu (Lee Byung-Hun) has it all—a beautiful wife, two lovely kids, two golden retrievers, and a gorgeous home with a lush, overgrown garden. But his idyllic existence is threatened when he is suddenly laid off after decades of work. Undeterred, he devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition, literally. Director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) adapts Donald Westlake's novel The Axe in this delirious and chilling satire of workplace politics.
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