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Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook. The cast includes Choi Min-sik, Yu Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jung, and Yoon Jin-seo. It is part of The Vengeance Trilogy and is based on the work Oldboy. The film’s genres are drama, thriller, mystery, and action, with original language Korean. Its main subjects include suicide, revenge, incest, and solitude.
The movie was produced by Kim Dong-ju and distributed by Medusa Film. Chung Chung-Hoon served as director of photography, Jo Yeong-wook as composer, and Kim Sang-bum as film editor. Filming took place in New Zealand and Seoul, while the narrative is set in South Korea. The film received the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix and was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Non-European Film.
Oldboy has a runtime of 116 or 120 minutes, depending on the source. It has received an average rating of 8.239 from 9,825 votes on one platform and 8.3 from 721,104 votes on another. The film’s budget was 3,000,000 and its revenue was 17,500,000. A soundtrack album was released in 2003.
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Film · TMDB
8.2With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
Cast
- Choi Min-sik as Oh Dae-su
- Yoo Ji-tae as Lee Woo-jin
- Kang Hye-jung as Mi-do
- Kim Byeong-ok as Mr. Han
- Ji Dae-han as No Joo-hwan
- Oh Dal-su as Park Cheol-woong
Themes
- daughter
- martial arts
- rage and hate
- hostility
- transformation
- imprisonment
- dark comedy
- hypnosis
- sushi restaurant
- notebook
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Encyclopedic overview
Oldboy (Korean: 올드보이) is a 2003 South Korean action thriller film directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook. A loose adaptation of the Japanese manga Old Boy by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi, the film follows Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik), who is imprisoned for 15 years without knowing the identity of his captor or his captor's motives. When he is released, Dae-su finds himself trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence as he seeks revenge against his captor and falls in love with a young sushi chef, Mi-do (Kang Hye-jung).
Oldboy attained critical acclaim and accolades worldwide, including winning the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where it garnered high praise from Quentin Tarantino, the president of the jury. In the United States, film critic Roger Ebert stated that Oldboy is a "powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare". The film's action sequences, particularly the single shot corridor fight sequence, also received commendation for their impressive execution.
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