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Oldboy (2003)

R 11/21/2003 Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Action 2h 0m
83%
User
Score
8.3/10
82%
78/100

Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone.

Overview

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

Lim Joon-hyung

Screenplay

Hwang Jo-yoon

Screenplay

Park Chan-wook

Screenplay

Part of the The Vengeance Trilogy

Includes Oldboy and other great movies.

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Top Billed Cast

Choi Min-sik

Choi Min-sik

Oh Dae-su

Yoo Ji-tae

Yoo Ji-tae

Lee Woo-jin

Kang Hye-jung

Kang Hye-jung

Mi-do

Kim Byeong-ok

Kim Byeong-ok

Mr. Han

Ji Dae-han

Ji Dae-han

No Joo-hwan

Oh Dal-su

Oh Dal-su

Park Cheol-woong

Lee Seung-shin

Lee Seung-shin

Hypnotist

Yoon Jin-seo

Yoon Jin-seo

Lee Soo-ah

Oh Tae-kyung

Oh Tae-kyung

Young Dae-su

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Media

Official 20th Anniversary Re-Release Trailer

Official 20th Anniversary Re-Release Trailer

Original Trailer [Subtitled]

Original Trailer [Subtitled]

Explaining the Ending of OLDBOY by Park Chan-wook

Explaining the Ending of OLDBOY by Park Chan-wook

Official UK Trailer

Official UK Trailer

The New Canon: 'Oldboy'

The New Canon: 'Oldboy'

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Reviews

A review by Eky

Written on June 16, 2012

I’m sure that all of you can always spot a film with good acting, superb plot and great cinematography easily but when it comes to a thriller that possesses all those above quality, it would be such a rarity. OldBoy here, second installment from The Vengeance Trilogy directed by Park Chan-wook (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, OldBoy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) really have them all, good story, powerful acting and the most horrifying and clever end twist if not genius. In fact no matter how many times you see this, the twist would still be awesome. The theme of revenge here is taken to the next level, to its supremacy for it’s really carefully-planned. OldBoy has a mind-bending assortment of drama, thriller, romance and beautifully spiced up with sadistic plot, shocking elements, ultra v...

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A review by manwhonose

Written on September 29, 2012

This is definitely one of the films to see before you die. It's seat-squirmingly unsettling, shocking and very violent.

It's a journey into a truly disturbed mind; a mind, which - like yours will be - is unable to cope with what it discovers.

This film is brilliantly twisted. It has a thread of the most wonderful, blackest humour running through it, a sense of complete disorientation and enough plot twists and turns to sustain your interest.

Not one of the best revenge thrillers I've seen - simply THE best!...

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A review by Niemand

Written on August 6, 2023

Just about everyone I’d spoken to about this film recommended it to me.

I watched this film with the original Korean-language soundtrack, with English subtitles.

Oh Dae-su (Chi Min-sik) is a bit of a flirt (whether he is a womaniser is not made clear) with a wife and young child, who has turned two years old on the day we start the film. Dae-su is in a prison waiting room having insulted a woman he was flirting with. A friend comes and eventually gets him out, but while he’s making a call to his wife to explain he will be home soon, he is kidnapped.

Incarcerated in a small room, with only a TV for company, he is fed and looked after, but not allowed his freedom. He unsuccessfully attempts suicide several times. He keeps himself fit by doing exercise programmes he sees on TV an...

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