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Oldboy

  • 8.3 /10

  • 8524

  • 83%

Plot

With 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
Choi Min-sik

as Oh Dae-su

Yoo Ji-tae as Lee Woo-jin
Yoo Ji-tae

as Lee Woo-jin

Kang Hye-jung as Mi-do
Kang Hye-jung

as Mi-do

Kim Byeong-ok as Mr. Han
Kim Byeong-ok

as Mr. Han

Ji Dae-han as No Joo-hwan
Ji Dae-han

as No Joo-hwan

Oh Dal-su as Park Cheol-woong
Oh Dal-su

as Park Cheol-woong

Seung-shin Lee as Hypnotist
Seung-shin Lee

as Hypnotist

Yoon Jin-seo as Lee Soo-ah
Yoon Jin-seo

as Lee Soo-ah

Oh Tae-kyung as Young Dae-su
Oh Tae-kyung

as Young Dae-su

Yoo Yeon-seok as Young Woo-jin
Yoo Yeon-seok

as Young Woo-jin

Movie Facts

Rated

  • R

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • November 21, 2003

Production Companies

  • Show East

  • Egg Film

  • Cineclick Asia

Production Countries

  • South Korea

Spoken Language

  • 한국어/조선말

Budget

  • $3,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $17,500,000.00

Runtime

  • 2.00 hrs

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Reviews

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, pow…

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 e…

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 …