OLDBOY (2003)

Special Features: 20th Anniversary; New 4K Restoration. Includes a pre-recorded 12-min. conversation between director Park Chan-Wook and Nicolas Winding Refn.

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The second film in Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance Trilogy" became both his most popular and most controversial work after it won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. In a riveting performance, Choi Min-sik plays Oh Dae-su, a man who is mysteriously imprisoned for 15 years, then just as mysteriously released. Dae-su's search for his tormentor — and the secrets he uncovers — is a visually stunning, hyper-violent journey that includes such now-notorious scenes as the eating of a living octopus and a spectacular fight in which Dae-su defeats a legion of thugs armed only with a hammer. A neo-noir with echoes of classical tragedy that come to a head in its shocking climax, OLDBOY is, as Stephanie Zacharek wrote in Salon.com, "anguished, beautiful and desperately alive… a dazzling work of pop culture artistry." DIR/SCR Park Chan-wook; SCR Hwang Jo-yun, Lim Joon-hyung, from the manga by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi; PROD Kim Dong-joo, Lim Seung-yong. South Korea, 2003, color, 119 min. In Korean with English subtitles. RATED R

No AFI Member passes accepted.

Run Time: 119 Minutes

Opening Date: Friday, August 18, 2023

Genre: Action drama