‘No Other Choice’ Trailer – Park Chan-wook’s Killer Dark Comedy Opens on Christmas
Neon has released the trailer for No Other Choice, the latest effort from acclaimed Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker). Based on Donald E. Westlake‘s 1997 novel The Ax, the black comedy thriller will open in select theaters on December 25 before expanding wide in January. Lee Byung-hun (“Squid Game”) stars a man who is […]
Neon has released the trailer for No Other Choice, the latest effort from acclaimed Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker).
Based on Donald E. Westlake‘s 1997 novel The Ax, the black comedy thriller will open in select theaters on December 25 before expanding wide in January.
Lee Byung-hun (“Squid Game”) stars a man who is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he worked tirelessly for many years. He grows increasingly desperate in his hunt for new work, eventually coming to a life-altering decision.
Son Ye-jin (“Crash Landing on You”), Park Hee-soon (“Squid Game”), Lee Sung-min (The Spy Gone North), Yeom Hye-ran (“The Glory”), Cha Seung-won (Night in Paradise), and Yoo Yeon-seok (“When the Phone Rings”) also star.
Chan-wook co-wrote the script with Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee (Uprising) and Don McKellar (Blindness).
The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and went on to play the Toronto International Film Festival and Beyond Fest, with upcoming screenings set for the New York Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, and more.
“Park Chan-wook’s deceptively simple comedy proves anything but,” Meagan Navarro wrote in her review out of TIFF. “It makes for a disarming and almost whimsical experience that wallops you hard with a sucker punch when you least expect it.”
No Other Choice was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best International Feature Film category for the 98th Academy Awards.
