Oldboy (Old Boy) (2003)

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Oldboy (Old Boy)

ORIGINAL TITLE

Oldeuboi - Oldboy

YEAR

2003

RUNNING TIME

120 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Park Chan-wook

SCREENWRITER

Park Chan-wook, Hwang Jo-yoon, Im Joon-hyung (Comic: Nobuaki Minegishi)

COMPOSER

Cho Young-wuk

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Chung Chung-hoon

CAST

Choi Min-sik, Yu Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong, Ji Dae-han, Oh Dal-su, Kim Byeong-ok, Lee Seung-Shin, Yun Jin-seo

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Show East Co. Ltd

AWARDS

2004: Cannes Film Festival: Jury Prize
2004: Sitges Fantastic Film Festival: Best Movie

GENRE

Thriller. Mystery | Based on Manga. Cult movie

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

Oldboy (action suspenser story from a Japanese comic book of the same title) features Min-sik Choi as a Korean businessman who is suddenly kidnapped and confined in a cell with only a television set. He makes various efforts to escape and even attempts to commit suicide, but all end up in failure. Dae-soo one day watches a news about his wife being murdered and he being wanted by the police. Feeling shocked and deeply grieved, Dae-soo begins to dig a hole in the room with a spoon to get his way out to revenge the lost of his wife on the real culprit.

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