'No Other Choice' Exclusively on Mubi
MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service, and production company, is proud to announce that BAFTA Award-winner Park Chan-wook's sharp, dark comedy thriller No Other Choice, will stream exclusively on MUBI 13 March 2026.
Following its world premiere at the 82nd Venice Film Festival and its UK premiere at London Film Festival, No Other Choice was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best International Feature Film category for the 98th Academy Awards®. It has received significant awards season attention, winning seven awards at South Korea's 46th Blue Dragon Film Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Park Chan-wook), Best Actress (Son Ye-Jin), Best Supporting Actor (Lee Sung-min) and Best Music.
At the 82nd Golden Globe awards, the film was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Lee Byung-hun). After winning the International Audience Award at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, it went on to receive three nominations at the 35th Gotham Awards for Outstanding Lead Performance (Lee Byung-hun), Best Adapted Screenplay (Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar) and Best International Feature.
No Other Choice is directed by Park Chan-wook (The Handmaiden, Oldboy), and stars Lee Byung-hun (I Saw the Devil) and Son Ye-jin (The Last Princess) alongside an ensemble cast including Park Hee-soon (My Name), Lee Sung-min (The Spy Gone North), Yeom Hye-ran (The Glory), Cha Seung-won (Believer) and Yoo Yeon-seok (Mr. Sunshine). The film is written by Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar and Jahye Lee.
No Other Choice is based on Donald E. Westlake's novel The Ax, the story following a middle-aged man named Man-su who embarks on a determined job-hunt after being unexpectedly fired from the paper company that he worked for 25 years. "If there is no opening for me, I'll just have to get hired by creating one. I have no other choice."
Looking for a job? When a happy family man is dismissed after twenty-five years of loyal service at a paper company, he finds the perfect solution to land his next role: truly eliminate the competition.
Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave, The Handmaiden, Oldboy) returns with the masterful and murderous No Other Choice, South Korea's Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards®.
Holding up an audacious mirror to the present, this Venice Film Festival hit satirizes our ultramodern world without restraint: from our unsatiated material ambitions to workplace automation and the corporate rat race. Matching its twisted wit with infinite visual flair, No Other Choice coalesces into a timelessly thrilling " and thrillingly relatable " wild ride.
★★★★★ "A masterful work of cinema. Might well be Park Chan-wook's masterpiece." - Time Out
Following its world premiere at the 82nd Venice Film Festival and its UK premiere at London Film Festival, No Other Choice was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best International Feature Film category for the 98th Academy Awards®. It has received significant awards season attention, winning seven awards at South Korea's 46th Blue Dragon Film Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Park Chan-wook), Best Actress (Son Ye-Jin), Best Supporting Actor (Lee Sung-min) and Best Music.
At the 82nd Golden Globe awards, the film was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Lee Byung-hun). After winning the International Audience Award at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, it went on to receive three nominations at the 35th Gotham Awards for Outstanding Lead Performance (Lee Byung-hun), Best Adapted Screenplay (Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar) and Best International Feature.
No Other Choice is directed by Park Chan-wook (The Handmaiden, Oldboy), and stars Lee Byung-hun (I Saw the Devil) and Son Ye-jin (The Last Princess) alongside an ensemble cast including Park Hee-soon (My Name), Lee Sung-min (The Spy Gone North), Yeom Hye-ran (The Glory), Cha Seung-won (Believer) and Yoo Yeon-seok (Mr. Sunshine). The film is written by Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar and Jahye Lee.
No Other Choice is based on Donald E. Westlake's novel The Ax, the story following a middle-aged man named Man-su who embarks on a determined job-hunt after being unexpectedly fired from the paper company that he worked for 25 years. "If there is no opening for me, I'll just have to get hired by creating one. I have no other choice."
Looking for a job? When a happy family man is dismissed after twenty-five years of loyal service at a paper company, he finds the perfect solution to land his next role: truly eliminate the competition.
Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave, The Handmaiden, Oldboy) returns with the masterful and murderous No Other Choice, South Korea's Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards®.
Holding up an audacious mirror to the present, this Venice Film Festival hit satirizes our ultramodern world without restraint: from our unsatiated material ambitions to workplace automation and the corporate rat race. Matching its twisted wit with infinite visual flair, No Other Choice coalesces into a timelessly thrilling " and thrillingly relatable " wild ride.
★★★★★ "A masterful work of cinema. Might well be Park Chan-wook's masterpiece." - Time Out
★★★★★ "A deliriously entertaining masterpiece" - BBC Culture
★★★★ "No Other Choice is often wickedly good fun, with pleasing echoes of Parasite." - The Times
Still from NO OTHER CHOICE / Courtesy of MUBI
Still from NO OTHER CHOICE / Courtesy of MUBI
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