Oldboy

About Oldboy

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

Oldboy is a 2003 mystery thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook. At 120 minutes long, it arrived in November 2003.

Choi Min-sik takes the lead as Oh Dae-su, Yoo Ji-tae as Lee Woo-jin, Kang Hye-jung as Mi-do, and Kim Byeong-ok as Mr. Han. Written by Hwang Jo-yoon and Im Joon-hyung. It is adapted from a manga.

Shelv files it under daughter, philosophical, alcoholism, and depressing.

Shutter Island, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, and The Nice Guys make useful companions to Oldboy, all filed under inspirational and neo-noir. It scores 8.2 out of 10 from 10,364 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.