Oldboy (2005)

Director: Chan Wook Park  Starring: Choi Min-Sik  
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Product Summary
Publisher: GENIUS PRODUCTS
Format: N/A
UPC: 00842498070048
Buy.com Sku: 205682649
Item#: V2VCPX
Category Keywords: Action  Crime  Theatrical Release  Thriller  Violence 
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Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is abducted and locked up in a strange, private prison. No one will tell him why he's there and who his jailer is. Over time his fury builds to a single-minded focus of revenge. 15 years later, he is unexpectedly freed, given a new suit, a cell-phone and 5 days to discover the mysterious enemy who had him imprisoned.
 


Editor's Note

It would be a sin to reveal too much about this riveting and bizarre thriller from Korean director Chan Wook Park, except to say that it's about a man named Dae-Su (Choi Min-Sik) who is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor's motives. When he is finally released, Dae Su finds himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and strangeness. His own quest for vengeance becomes tied in with romance when he falls for an attractive sushi chef (Gang Hye-Jung), who feeds him live octopus and who may or may not be involved with the bizarre mystery. This is all served up in a striking palette of purples and dark reds; oozing with post-neo-noir style, and stuffed with insanely malicious twists and turns. Choi Min-Sik is terrific in the lead, counterbalancing over-the-top hysterics with deadpan cool to run the gamut of Asian antihero traits. There are intense fight scenes (Dae Su's favorite weapon is a hammer), look-away moments of torture and self-mutilation, sex, and gallons of black humor. Not for the squeamish, but for those seeking something wholly original and daring, this cinematic entree is alive--it's hard to imagine a better slice of psycho-shock sensationalism.

 
Features
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English, Korean
DTS-HD master Audio Surround 6.1 Uncompressed - Korean
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround EX - Korean
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English

Disc 1: OLDBOY (Blu-ray Disc)
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. Director's Commentary
2. Director and Cast Commentary
3. Director and Cinematographer Commentary
Deleted Scenes - Deleted Scenes with Opional Commentary
Trailer - Theatrical Trailer

Disc 2: Standard Definition Bonus Disc
5-Behind The Scenes Documentaries
Featurette - 1. Making The Film - The Cast Remembers
2. Production Design
3. The Music Score
4. CGI Documentary
5. Flashback.
6. 'Le Grand Prix At Cannes'
Interview - Cast & Crew Interviews
Trailers - Tartan Asia Extreme Trailers

 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: GENIUS PRODUCTS
Release Date: 11/6/2007
Running Time: 120 minutes
Original Release Date: 2005
Catalog ID: 7004
UPC: 00842498070048
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: Korean
Available Audio Tracks: English Dubbed, Korean
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Yoo Ji-tae
Choi Min-Sik
Bo-Kyeong Kim
Chan Wook Park - Screenwriter
Chan Wook Park - Director

 
Professional Reviews
New York Times
"A master of composition, Mr. Park makes some of the snazziest-looking pulp fiction going." 03/25/2005 p.E14

Entertainment Weekly
"The brio and glee that Koran bad-boy filmmaker Park Chanwook brings to the gaudy psycho-shockeroo OLDBOY is undeniable, even impressive." 04/01/2005 p.51

Chicago Sun-Times
"OLDBOY ventures to emotional extremes, but not without reason." 03/25/2005 p.28

Sight and Sound
"[With] rigorously inventive direction and an emotional undertow that builds to a startling level of intensity." 05/01/2005 p.86

Rolling Stone
"[A]n explosively exciting psychosexual revenge drama from Korean powerhouse Park Chanwook that makes movies feel alive again." 04/07/2005 p.78

Premiere
"Park Chan-Wook is a tremendous craftsman....He ratchets up the sadistic suspense in a variety of fruit flavors." 09/01/2005 p.129

Movieline's Hollywood Life
"Park's direction is bristlingly inventive, and his themes are ancient Greek in scope." 09/01/2005 p.101

Entertainment Weekly
Ranked #5 in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten DVDs Of The Year -- "Fans of Tarantino and films with surprise endings that are actually surprising should flock to this Korean import..." 12/30/2005 p.126

Rolling Stone
Ranked #10 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "[A]n explosively exciting revenge drama..." 12/01/2005 p.98

  
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