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Oldboy (Korean: 올드보이; RR: Oldeuboi; MR: Oldŭboi) is a 2003 South Korean action-thriller film [4] [5] directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook.A loose adaptation of the Japanese manga of the same name, the film follows the story of Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik), who is imprisoned in a cell resembling a hotel room for 15 years without knowing the identity of his captor or his captor's motives.
The Vengeance Trilogy (Korean: 복수 삼부작) is a South Korean thematically-linked film trilogy directed by Park Chan-wook, comprising Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005). Each film deals with the themes of revenge, [7] ethics, [8] violence and salvation. The films are not narratively connected and ...
Park Chan-wook was born 23 August 1963 in Seoul. [12] Both of his parents were native Seoul residents who have lived in Seoul for five generations. His father, Park Don-seo, was a professor of architecture and former dean of Ajou University's College of Engineering.
In 1994, Hyun-woo (Jung Hae-in) is fresh out of juvie and lands a job at Mi-soo’s (Kim Go-eun) bakery. The two quickly bond before circumstances take him elsewhere, but they later reunite many ...
The 20th-anniversary rerelease of Park Chan-Wook's masterpiece has surpassed the cumulative gross of its original release. So why are people lining up to sold-out showings of the film?
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Oldboy, the South Korean thriller that many consider a classic despite it only being released 21 years ago, is on track for a TV series adaptation. TVLine has learned that Lionsgate Television is ...
Yoo then returned to the melodrama genre, starring in his first TV drama Star's Lover opposite Choi Ji-woo, [10] [11] as well as a couple of romance-themed films, notably Secret Love which reunited him with Oldboy costar Yoon Jin-seo. [12] Afterwards he played another villain in the real-time suspense thriller Midnight FM. [13] [14]