Park Chan-Wook
South Korea 2003
120 min., Korean with subtitles, 35mm

In this comic-book story with elements of classical tragedy, a man is kidnapped, drugged, and held prisoner in a nondescript room for 15 years. Suddenly freed, he seeks the reasons behind his torture. His search only leads him toward the shocking truth via an even more tangled and perverse path laid out by his mysterious persecutor. The second chapter in Park’s highly stylish trilogy of films about revenge and violence, Oldboy is a mind-bending and visceral thriller for those looking for something decidedly different.

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