Oldboy (10th Anniversary Edition) (Blu-ray) R
15 years of imprisonment, five days of vengeance
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 19, 2013
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Palisades Tartan
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Min-sik Choi | |
Performer: | Bo-Kyeong Kim & Ji-tae Yoo | |
Directed by | Chan-wook Park | |
Screenwriting by | Chan-wook Park |
Entertainment Reviews:
Shakespearean in its violence, Oldboy also calls up nightmare images of spiritual and physical isolation that are worthy of Samuel Beckett or Dostoyevsky.
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Wall Street Journal
Rating: 4/5 --
Oldboy is so much more than an action film; it takes the viewer on a journey through a life destroyed, rebuilt and abolished once more. It teaches us lessons about consequences from our actions, the need to get revenge and find truth...
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JumpCut Online
Rating: 5/5 --
Oldboy is a delirious, confronting ride, a movie full of visceral shocks and aesthetic pleasures: it has an explosive immediacy and a persistent afterlife, a lingering impact that is hard to shake.
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The Age (Australia)
Rating: 4/5 --
A lurid, complex, introspective beast, enacting astonishing cruelty on its protagonist like a slow-acting poison.
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Little White Lies
Park's direction is bristlingly inventive, and his themes are ancient Greek in scope.
Movieline's Hollywood Life
A master of composition, Mr. Park makes some of the snazziest-looking pulp fiction going.
New York Times
Park Chan-Wook is a tremendous craftsman....He ratchets up the sadistic suspense in a variety of fruit flavors.
Premiere
Product Description:
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.