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{{work|wppage=Oldboy (2003 film)}}
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{{quote|''Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.''}}
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A South Korean movie very loosely based on a Japanese manga of the same name, and is the second and most well-known installment of [[Park Chan-wook|Park Chan-wook's]] Vengeance Trilogy, which begins with ''[[Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance]]'' and ends with ''[[Sympathy for Lady Vengeance]]''. The film also has several parallels to ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'', as well as [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to ''[[Titus Andronicus (theatre)|Titus Andronicus]]''.
Oh Dae-su is an alcoholic businessman with a wife and daughter who is released by the police after a night of drunken misconduct, and then is abruptly kidnapped without a trace. Locked inside a hotel room, completely cut off from the outside world except for a TV, and drugged with knock-out gas every so often, he eventually learns that during his disappearance his wife has been killed, and he has been framed as the murderer. Enraged by his predicament, he finds ways to pass the time, writing his memoirs, [[Took a Level
But just days before his long-awaited breakout fifteen years later, he is just as mysteriously released, with nice clothes, money, a cell phone, a severely weakened psyche, a fugitive status and a million unanswered questions. With the help of a female Japanese chef named Mido and one of his old computer-geek friends, he tries to piece together the scattered clues of who took his life away from him, cutting down anyone who gets in his path.
[[Oldboy (2013 film)|An English-language remake]]
{{Unmarked Spoilers}}
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* [[Face Death with Dignity]]: {{spoiler|Woo-jin}} takes a hot shower and puts on his best suit before shooting himself.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: {{spoiler|The first time audiences see the sex scene between Dae-Su and Mido, it's probably tantalizing. Once they're hit with the revelation of Mido being his daughter, the scene is much less appealing in retrospect or upon repeated viewings.}}
* [[555]]: Averted, as the address - both the street number and PO box - to Dae-su's daughter's foster parents in reality belongs to [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811023601/http://www.firsthotels.com/en/Our-hotels/Sweden/Stockholm/First-Hotel-Amaranten/ a hotel in Stockholm].
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Woo-jin. So much.
* [[Go Mad
** And when he finds out that {{spoiler|[[Squick]] Mido is his daughter.}}
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Two occurrences: When Dae-su rips out Mr Park's teeth with the fork of a hammer, {{spoiler|and when he cuts his own tongue out.}}
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{{reflist}}
{{Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix}}
[[Category:Seinen]]
[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
▲[[Category:Oldboy]]
[[Category:Film]]
[[Category:Korean Movies]]
[[Category:Films Based on Manga]]
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