TMDB 8.4 2003 South Korea 120 min

Oldboy

Directed by Park Chan-wook

Fifteen years of imprisonment. Five days of vengeance.

After being inexplicably imprisoned for 15 years, a man is suddenly released and given five days to find his captor — and discover why.

Starring

Choi Min-sikYoo Ji-taeKang Hye-jungKim Byeong-ok

with Ji Dae-han, Oh Dal-su, Lee Seung-shin, Yoon Jin-seo

Screenplay — Lim Joon-hyung

Cinematography — Chung Chung-hoon

Screenplay — Hwang Jo-yoon

Music — Choi Seung-hyun

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Source manga

Garon Tsuchiya & Nobuaki Minegishi

Park kept the premise and invented the revelation. The manga's ending is much smaller.

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