Oldboy (2005)

Theatrical - Limited 2005-03-25

Cast Choi Min-sik Yu Ji-tae Kang Hye-jeong
Directed by Chan-wook Park
Written by Lim Chun-hyeong Hwang Jo-yun Chan-wook Park

Genres: Thriller

Synopsis

A man, with a lovely wife and child, wakes up to find that he is locked up in a room/prison for a reason about which he’s never told, by someone who he’s never told about. Fifteen years later, he is let go, only with more questions than answers. He spends the rest of the film trying to find out who incarcerated him for all those hellish years and for what reason-and in relation to that…to get revenge!!!

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