Oldboy

Oldboy (2003)

Abducted on a rainy night in 1988, the obnoxious drunk, Oh Dae-Su, much to his surprise, wakes up locked in a windowless and dilapidated hotel room, for an unknown reason. There, his invisible and pitiless captors will feed him, clothe him, and sedate him to avert a desperate suicide--and as his only companion and a window to the world is the TV in his stark cell--the only thing that helps Oh Dae-Su keep going is his daily journal. Then, unexpectedly, after fifteen long years in captivity, the perplexed prisoner is deliberately released, encouraged to track down his tormentor to finally get his retribution. However, who would hate Oh Dae-Su so much he would deny him of a quick and clean death?

Genres

Action Drama Mystery

Countries

South Korea

Director

Park Chan-wook

Writers

Garon Tsuchiya Nobuaki Minegishi Park Chan-wook

Producers

Syd Lim Kim Dong-joo Kim Jang-wook Ji Young-jun

Composers

Choi Seung-hyun Shim Hyun-jung Lee Ji-soo Cho Young-wuk

Cinematographer

Chung Chung-hoon

Editors

Kim Sang-bum Kim Jae-beom

Production

Show East Egg Film Cineclick Asia

Starring

Choi Min-sik Yoo Ji-tae Kang Hye-jung Kim Byeong-ok Ji Dae-han Oh Dal-su Lee Seung-shin Yoon Jin-seo Oh Tae-kyung Yoo Yeon-seok You Il-han Lee Young-hee Kim Young-ae Lee Mi-mi Han Jae-duk Kwak Jung-ae Kim San Jang Chae-soo Im Seol-a Syd Lim Choi Chang-hak Shin Bi-joon Seong Seok-jae Choi Jae-sup Yoon Jin-yul Mun Seong-bok Park Jae-woong Oh Soon-tae Lee Hong-pyo Park Geun-seok

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