Overview
- Local distributor CJ ENM said Park Chan-wook received the Best Director honor at the 58th Sitges Film Festival for No Other Choice.
- The film earlier won the International People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and competed for the Golden Lion at Venice.
- South Korea has submitted the title for the Academy Awards' Best International Feature Film category.
- Adapted from Donald E. Westlake’s The Ax, the screenplay relocates the story to Korea and spotlights housing anxiety, patriarchal pressures and the recent arrival of AI.
- Lee Byung-hun leads the cast as Man-su and says he contributed ideas during production, with Singapore theatrical release set for Oct. 23.