Oldboy
One day a seemingly innocent, average man Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is kidnapped and imprisoned in a small, furnished bedroom/bathroom. With no idea why or by whom, he is imprisoned for fifteen years. He watches hours of TV and so he’s informed that his wife has been murdered, his daughter has gone missing, and that he is the prime suspect. Then Oh Dae-su's inexplicably released.
He meets a kindly sushi waitress, Mi-do (Gang Hye-jung). Together they start an investigation, but his former captor, Lee Wu-jin (Yu Ji-tae), decides to turn Dae-su's quest for answers into a cruel game. If he doesn't solve the riddle in five days, Mi-do will die. Dae-su fights his way through henchmen as he comes closer and closer to the truth and some deep secrets from the past.
Cast:
- (Park Chan-wook ... Director)
- Kang Hye-jeong ... Mi-do
- Yun Jin-seo ... Soo-ah Lee
- Yu Ji-tae ... Lee Woo-jin
- Choi Min-sik ... Oh Dae-su
- Lee Dae-yeon ... Beggar
- Oh Dal-su ... Cheol-woong Park
- Lee Seung-Shin ... Hyung-ja Yoo
- Byeong-ok Kim - Mr. Han
- Dae-han Chi -
- Dae-han Ji - No Joo-hwan
- Dae-yeon Lee - Beggar
- Dal-su Oh - Park Cheol-woong
- Hye-jeong Kang - Mi-do
- Il-han Oo - Young Joo-hwan
- Jin-seo Yun - Lee Soo-ah
- Ji-tae Yu - Woo-jin Lee
- Kwang-rok Oh - Suicidal Man
- Min-sik Choi - Dae-su Oh
- Myeong-shin Park -
- Seung-jin Lee -
- Seung-Shin Lee - Yoo Hyung-ja
- Su-hyeon Kim -
- Su-kyeong Yun -
- Tae-kyung Oh - Young Dae-su
- Yeon-suk Ahn - Young Woo-jin
- Yi Yong - Delivery Boy
- Chan-wook Park - Director
- Chan-wook Park - screenplay
- Chun-hyeong Lim - screenplay
- Garon Tsuchiya - (story)
- Joon-hyung Lim - writer
- Jo-yun Hwang - screenplay
- Nobuaki Minegishi - (comic)
- Hyun-jung Shim - Composer
- Dong-joo Kim - producer
- Dong-ju Kim - executive producer
- Seung-yong Lim - producer
- Waltz / from Masquerade / by Aram Khachaturyan
- Winter / from The Four Seasons / Written by Antonio Vivaldi
- Bring My Love / by Starsailor /
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