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Oldboy (2003)

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R 120 minutes KO Drama , Thriller , Mystery , Action

Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone.

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

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Choi Min-sik

Oh Dae-su

Yoo Ji-tae

Lee Woo-jin

Kang Hye-jung

Mi-do

Kim Byeong-ok

Mr. Han

Ji Dae-han

No Joo-hwan

Oh Dal-su

Park Cheol-woong

Seung-shin Lee

Hypnotist

Yoon Jin-seo

Lee Soo-ah

Oh Tae-kyung

Young Dae-su

Yoo Yeon-seok

Young Woo-jin

You Il-han

Young Joo-hwan

Lee Young-hee

Clock Store Lady

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Production crew

Kim Sang-bum

Editor

Chung Chung-hoon

Director of Photography

Ryu Seong-hie

Production Design

Cho Sang-kyung

Costume Design

Cho Young-wuk

Original Music Composer

Yang Hong-sam

Set Decoration

Lee Seung-chul

Sound Supervisor

Shim Hyun-jung

Original Music Composer

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This is definitely one of the films to see before you die. It's seat-squirmingly unsettling, shocking and very violent.
It's a journey into a truly disturbed mind; a mind, which - like yours will be - is unable to cope with what it discovers.
This film is brilliantly twisted. It has a thread of the most wonderful, blackest humour running through it, a sense of complete disorientation and enough plot twists and turns to sustain your interest.
Not one of the best revenge thrillers I've seen - simply THE best!

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Production companies: Show East, Egg Film, Cineclick Asia

Production countries: South Korea

Budget: $3,000,000

Revenue: $17,500,000

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R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian 21 or older. The parent/guardian is required to stay with the child under 17 through the entire movie, even if the parent gives the child/teenager permission to see the film alone. These films may contain strong profanity, graphic sexuality, nudity, strong violence, horror, gore, and strong drug use. A movie rated R for profanity often has more severe or frequent language than the PG-13 rating would permit. An R-rated movie may have more blood, gore, drug use, nudity, or graphic sexuality than a PG-13 movie would admit.)

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