Revenge can devour you and spit you out.

Rating: 8/10 (7 December 2005)

Perverse, obtuse, profane, controversial; but award-winning revenge drama about a common businessman(Min-sik Choi) with a family and a habit of getting drunk after work being kidnapped and put in a makeshift prison. He is incarcerated for no obvious reason; his prison resembles a rundown hotel room... but there is no windows and a locked steel door. This becomes his home for fifteen years; he is finally allowed to watch TV where he sees that he is a wanted man for murdering his wife and daughter. He contemplates suicide several times, but mostly he works out and writes of his situation in a journal. Just like he was kidnapped, he is set free and being obsessed in his wanting to carry out his revenge...a young sushi chef(Hye-jeong Kang)helps him find his captors. This South Korean film includes scenes of torture, sexuality and ultra-strong violence. This one is not easy to forget. If you are serious about your movies, OLDBOY should not be overlooked. Also in the cast: Ji-tae Yu, Seung-Shin Lee and Dae-han Ji.