Oldboy

KR 2003 colour 119 min.
dir:  Chan Wook Park
pro:  Kim Dong-joo, Show East, Egg Films
sc:  Hwang Jo-yun, Lim Joon-hyung, Park Chan-wook
ph:  Jung Jung-hoon
mus:  Cho Young-wuk
ed:  Kim Sang-bum
cast:  Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Gang Hye-jung , Chi Dae-han, Oh Dal-su, Lee Seung-shin, Kim Byoung-ok, Yoon Jin-seo, Lee Dae-yun, Oh Tae-guyng
dis:  Gutek Film

 

Oh Dae-su 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” for 15 years. No one will tell him why he’s there and who his jailer is, but he is kept in reasonably comfortable quarters and has a TV to keep him company.

 

Watching TV though, he discovers he has been framed for his wife’s murder and realizes that, during one of the occasions in which he’s knocked out by gas, someone has drawn blood from him and left it at the scene of the crime.

 

The imprisonment last for 15 years until one day when Dae-su finds himself unexpectedly deposited on a grass-covered high-rise roof..

 

Cannes IFF 2004 – Grand Prix