Oldboy (2003)

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Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is locked up in a strange, private "prison." No one will tell him why he's there or who his jailer is. The imprisonment last for 15 years until one day when Dae-su finds himself unexpectedly deposited on a grass-covered high-rise roof, determined to discover the mysterious enemy who had him locked up. (Tartan Films)

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Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Action, Mystery

Franchise: The Vengeance Trilogy

AKA: Old Boy, Oldeuboi

Country: South Korea

Directed By: Chan-wook Park

Written By: Chan-wook Park, Garon Tsuchiya, Nobuaki Minegishi, Jo-yun Hwang

Starring: Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang, Dae-han Ji, Seung-Shin Lee, Dal-su Oh, Byeong-ok Kim, Dae-yeon Lee, Tae-kyung Oh, Jin-seo Yun, Yeon-suk Ahn, Il-han Oo

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