Thank you, Neon. There is no better way to celebrate Park Chan-wook’s violent masterpiece than to bring it back to theaters, especially since I’ve never seen it on the big screen. Oldboy is one of my all-time favorites and I’d love the opportunity to see it the way it was meant to be viewed. I’ve only ever watched it on my TV so I can only imagine the impact those visuals will have when put into the proper perspective.
Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, and Kang Hye-jung star in the movie, which won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The film’s logline reads: “After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-sik) is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.”
Chan-wook wrote the screenplay alongside Hwang Jo-yun and Lim Joon-hyung. Oldboy is the second installment of Park’s Vengeance Trilogy, sandwiched between Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance.