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Oldboy
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: OLDBOY
EAN: 0842498030042
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Tartan Video
Languages: Korean (Original Language), Dolby Digital 6.1 EXEnglish (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX
Manufacturer: Tartan Video
MPN: 842498030042
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Tartan Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 23, 2005
Running Time: 120 minutes
Studio: Tartan Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Editorial Review:
In the realm of revenge thrillers, you'd be hard pressed to find more ultra-violent vengeance and psycho thrills than in the creepy story of Oldboy. This Korean import made a pop splash at the Cannes Film Festival and during its limited theatrical run thanks to the imprimatur of Quentin Tarantino, who raved about it and its visionary director, Chan-wook Park, to anyone who would listen. It's easy to see why QT fell in love with the grindhouse attitude, fast-paced action, violent imagery, and icy-black humor, but it's a disservice to think of Oldboy as another Tarantino homage or knockoff. The darkly existential undercurrent in the themes that Oldboy traces over its life-long narrative arc is much more complex and deeply disturbing than anything of its kind. The movie's tagline is, "15 years of imprisonment... 5 days of vengeance." The imprisonee is Oh Dae-Su, an ordinary Joe who is snatched off a Seoul street corner and locked away in a dank, windowless fleabag hotel room for the aforementioned 15 years. Just as abruptly he is released, and thus the five days begin. Why did this happen to Oh Dae-Su? Ah, but that would be telling, and in fact we don't know ourselves until the final wrenching scenes.
Oldboy breaks into a classic three-act saga, the first of which details the hallucinatory period of imprisonment in which Oh Dae-Su wades from mild insanity to outright psychosis in the hands of unseen yet attentive captors. Act 2 is the revenge, when an entirely different tone takes over and Oh Dae-Su moves with single-minded purpose and clarity. It's this section that has gained the most notoriety, primarily for the claw-hammer dentistry scene, the one-man-army tracking shot, and the wriggling octopus that Oh Dae-Su consumes in a sushi bar (he's been dead so long he simply needs life back inside him in any way possible). In act 3, answers finally start to emerge and the sinister atmosphere grows even more profound--not without a healthy dose of extra bloodletting, of course. Oldboy is an undeniably poetic masterpiece of tension, fury, and dynamic craft. Ultimately, its epic cycle of tragedy is of the sort that mankind has been inflicting upon itself for all time. Some of the images may be gruesome, but all converge into a kind of beauty. It's in the telling of this lurid tale that these details become one and the memories of pain ultimately heal. --Ted Fry
After being kidnapped and held a prisoner for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is mysteriously set free with money and new clothes, and searches for his captor.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: OLDBOY
Title: OLDBOY
Street Release Date: 06/27/2006
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Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Oldboy - Crime Drama, Thriller, Horror - Whatever Category, This Movie Is Great
Oldboy is a movie that defies classification. This movie could easily be sliced and diced into three or four genres and be in the upper echelon of any of them. In fact, even writing a review of this movie is a challenge. Basic plot synopses will not give you a sense of how original and well made this movie is. This is the rare gem; you can either watch it simply for enjoyment, or peel back the layers like an onion and study each one.
There are a few warnings however. This film is ... Read More
Rating: - Dark secrets and revenge
After 15 yrs of being in prisioned Oh Dae-Su is mysteriously released. His one priority is finding out who did this to him, why he was in prisoned and paying the guy back for robbing him of 15 yrs of his life and the loss of his family.
A great story about revenge with a horrifying twist ending that will leave you in disbeleif.
This 3 disk set comes with the manga and a collectors tin. This is also the only Tartan Extreme title to provide a dub track.
Rating: - One of my favorite movies ever.
It is just a great movie. Love it, Love it, Love it. It has an ending that Hollywood would NEVER, NEVER, EVER touch. It is just so unique. Sorry I'm being so vague, I just don't want to spoil it.
Rating:  - Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.
The thing about Oldboy is that it leaves you thinking long after the credits. The next night after seeing it, I ended up dreaming I was trapped in a hotel room, with my hair growing out of control, with the exception being that there was no TV. It certainly makes you think how you would cope in that situation - the only situation similar to that would be prison. But at least in prison you get some luxuries.
The story is based around Oh Dae-Su, who is taken from the streets after a drunken ... Read More
Rating: - Genius With A Vengeance
Written By: Lisa Fore
© Dystopia Magazine | Asian Edition | June 2007
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone."
After getting busted for being drunk and extremely disorderly, rumpled businessman Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) gets angrier and angrier as he sits at a station waiting for the police to release him because he has to go home--it's his little girl's birthday. Getting nowhere with the standard inebriated outbursts and tantrums, he tries to flip on the ... Read More
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