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Oldboy
Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter. After a drunken night on the town, he is abducted and locked up in a strange, private "prison." No one will tell him why he's there and who his jailer is and his fury builds to a single-minded focus of revenge. 15 years later, he is unexpectedly freed, given a new suit, a cell phone and 5 days to unravel the mystery and discover the identity of the enemy who had him imprisoned. Seeking vengeance on all those involved, he soon finds that his enemy's tortures are just beginning.
Cast
| Dae-su Oh |
Min-sik Choi |
| Woo-jin Lee |
Ji-tae Yu |
| Mi-do |
Hye-jeong Kang |
| No Joo-hwan |
Dae-han Ji |
| Park Cheol-woong |
Dal-su Oh |
| Mr. Han |
Byeong-ok Kim |
| Yoo Hyung-ja |
Seung-Shin Lee |
| Lee Soo-ah |
Jin-seo Yun |
| Begger |
Dae-yeon Lee |
| Suicidal Man |
Kwang-rok Oh |
| Young Dae-su |
Tae-kyung Oh |
| Young Woo-jin |
Yeon-suk Ahn |
| Young Joo-hwan |
Il-han Oo |
| Main Target |
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| Dae-su Oh |
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone."
~ Dae-su Oh
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Trivia
| Four live octopi were eaten for the scene with Dae-su in the sushi bar, a scene which provoked some controversy abroad. Eating live octopus in Korea is commonplace although it is usually sliced first. When the film won the Grand Prix at Cannes, the director thanked the octopi along with the cast and crew. |
| Min-sik Choi trained for six weeks and lost twenty pounds to get in shape for the role of Dae-su, and did most of his own stuntwork. |
| The famous one-take corridor scene was shot in three days. CGI was not used to cleverly edit the sequence as one take, it was actually done in one take. The only CGI used during the scene is where Oh Dae Su gets stabbed in the back with a knife. |
| Choi Min Sik is a Buddhist and had to pray after eating the octupuses. |
| Dae-su Oh bangs his head right after stopping Mi-do from reading his diary. This "head banging" was not a scripted action. However Hye-jeong Kang (Mi-do) kept her cool and continued on with her lines. The director, in an interview, said that he kept and used this supposely NG scene for its comical and emotional value. |
| Woo-jin Lee is played by: |
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| Ji-tae Yu |
"If they had told me it was going to be fifteen years, would it have been easier to endure?"
~Dae-su Oh
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