Oldboy
- imdbID:
- tt0364569
- Director:
- Park Chan-wook
- Writer:
- Garon Tsuchiya,Nobuaki Minegishi,Park Chan-wook,Jo-yun Hwang,Joon-hyung Lim
- Year:
- 2003
- Genre:
- Action, Drama, Mystery
- Country:
- South Korea
Categories
- 🎓 Cinema Experts
- 💎 Cinema Gems
- ⏳ Cinema History
- 🌍 Countries
- 🎭 Genres
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🏷️ Tags
- 📁 1980s
- 📁 1990s
- 📁 2000s
- 📁 21st century
- 📁 911 call
- 📁 abandoned school
- 📁 accidental incest
- 📁 action
- 📁 action hero
- 📁 alcoholic
- 📁 ambiguous ending
- 📁 angel's wings
- 📁 anger
- 📁 animal cruelty
- 📁 animated sequence
- 📁 ant
- 📁 anti hero
- 📁 ants on face
- 📁 archive footage
- 📁 arms tied overhead
- 📁 attempted rape
- 📁 attempted suicide
- 📁 audio cassette
- 📁 baby
- 📁 bandage
- 📁 barking like a dog
- 📁 baseball bat
- 📁 based on comic
- 📁 based on comic book
- 📁 based on manga
- 📁 bathroom
- 📁 beaten to death
- 📁 beating
- 📁 bible quote
- 📁 bicycle
- 📁 birthday
- 📁 birthday present
- 📁 biting a hand
- 📁 blood
- 📁 blood splatter
- 📁 blood splatter in eyes
- 📁 bloody nose
- 📁 body lands on a car
- 📁 bodyguard
- 📁 book
- 📁 bound and gagged
- 📁 boyfriend girlfriend relationship
- 📁 brawl
- 📁 briefcase full of money
- 📁 broken glass
- 📁 brother and sister in love with each other
- 📁 brother has sex with sister
- 📁 brother murders sister
- 📁 brother sister incest
- 📁 brother sister relationship
- 📁 brother sister sex
- 📁 brother takes photo of sister
- 📁 brutality
- 📁 bucket hat
- 📁 cafe
- 📁 calendar shows passage of time
- 📁 camera
- 📁 camera shot of a woman's feet
- 📁 camera shot of a woman's legs
- 📁 captive
- 📁 captivity
- 📁 catholic
- 📁 catholic priest
- 📁 catholic school
- 📁 cell phone
- 📁 character repeats dialogue
- 📁 character's point of view camera shot
- 📁 chase
- 📁 chat room
- 📁 chinese food
- 📁 chinese restaurant
- 📁 chopsticks the eating utensil
- 📁 cigarette smoking
- 📁 claw hammer
- 📁 cleaning a camera lens
- 📁 clock shop
- 📁 close up of an eye
- 📁 coat rack
- 📁 comic book
- 📁 computer
- 📁 conspiracy
- 📁 corpse
- 📁 crying
- 📁 cuckoo clock
- 📁 cuff links
- 📁 cult film
- 📁 dangling from a rooftop
- 📁 dark comedy
- 📁 daughter has sex with father
- 📁 daughter in love with father
- 📁 daughter's birthday
- 📁 death
- 📁 death by drowning
- 📁 death of mother
- 📁 death of sister
- 📁 death of villain
- 📁 death of wife
- 📁 delivery boy
- 📁 dental torture
- 📁 derringer
- 📁 diary
- 📁 digging through a wall
- 📁 doctor
- 📁 dog
- 📁 downward spiral
- 📁 drama
- 📁 drink
- 📁 drinking
- 📁 drowning
- 📁 duct taped to a chair
- 📁 dumpling
- 📁 dumplings
- 📁 ear bleeding
- 📁 earphones
- 📁 eating
- 📁 eating a live animal
- 📁 eavesdropping
- 📁 elevator
- 📁 evergreen
- 📁 fainting
- 📁 fake wings
- 📁 falling from height
- 📁 false accusation
- 📁 false imprisonment
- 📁 family affairs
- 📁 family photo album
- 📁 fantasy sequence
- 📁 father daughter hug
- 📁 father daughter incest
- 📁 father daughter relationship
- 📁 father daughter sex
- 📁 father has sex with daughter
- 📁 fear
- 📁 female frontal nudity
- 📁 female nudity
- 📁 female rear nudity
- 📁 fifteen years
- 📁 fight
- 📁 fight sequence
- 📁 fistfight
- 📁 flash camera
- 📁 flash forward
- 📁 flashback
- 📁 flashlight
- 📁 flip phone
- 📁 flirting
- 📁 food
- 📁 footprints in the snow
- 📁 foster parent
- 📁 framed for murder
- 📁 friend
- 📁 friendship
- 📁 fugitive
- 📁 gas mask
- 📁 gift wrapped box
- 📁 girl riding a bicycle
- 📁 glass shattered
- 📁 gold teeth
- 📁 graphic violence
- 📁 guilt
- 📁 gun held to head
- 📁 hair dryer
- 📁 hair salon
- 📁 haircut
- 📁 hallucination
- 📁 hammer
- 📁 hand in a box
- 📁 hand over mouth
- 📁 hand to hand combat
- 📁 handcuffed
- 📁 handkerchief
- 📁 hanging by knees
- 📁 hatred
- 📁 haunted by the past
- 📁 held at gunpoint
- 📁 high school
- 📁 hit with a baseball bat
- 📁 hit with a hammer
- 📁 hong kong
- 📁 hotel
- 📁 humiliation
- 📁 husband murders his wife
- 📁 husband wife relationship
- 📁 hypnosis
- 📁 hypnotism
- 📁 hypnotist
- 📁 hypnotized woman
- 📁 hypodermic needle
- 📁 hysterical pregnancy
- 📁 ice pick
- 📁 immunity
- 📁 in medias res
- 📁 incest
- 📁 injection
- 📁 innocence
- 📁 insanity
- 📁 insects under skin
- 📁 internet cafe
- 📁 internet research
- 📁 japanese food
- 📁 jealousy
- 📁 kicking
- 📁 kidnapping
- 📁 killed in an elevator
- 📁 kiss
- 📁 knife
- 📁 knife in back
- 📁 knife in the back
- 📁 knockout gas
- 📁 korean
- 📁 laser pointer
- 📁 live action adaptation
- 📁 live action manga adaptation
- 📁 locked in a trunk
- 📁 loneliness
- 📁 long lost daughter
- 📁 long take
- 📁 love
- 📁 male body
- 📁 male nudity
- 📁 male protagonist
- 📁 male rear nudity
- 📁 man in a shower
- 📁 man kisses a woman's breasts
- 📁 man removes a woman's panties
- 📁 man undresses a woman
- 📁 manhattan new york city
- 📁 martial arts
- 📁 maximalism
- 📁 memory
- 📁 memory game
- 📁 mimetic desire
- 📁 money
- 📁 montage
- 📁 mother daughter relationship
- 📁 murder
- 📁 murder of mother
- 📁 murder of sister
- 📁 murder of wife
- 📁 mute
- 📁 mysterious villain
- 📁 mystery
- 📁 neo noir
- 📁 new york city
- 📁 newspaper
- 📁 newsreel footage
- 📁 notebook
- 📁 nun
- 📁 obscure meaning
- 📁 octopus
- 📁 old man young woman sex
- 📁 older man younger woman relationship
- 📁 on the run
- 📁 one against many
- 📁 one breast exposed
- 📁 one versus many
- 📁 one word title
- 📁 open ending
- 📁 overhead shot
- 📁 pain
- 📁 passing out
- 📁 pay phone
- 📁 penthouse
- 📁 Person
- 📁 photo album
- 📁 photograph
- 📁 pleading
- 📁 pleading for mercy
- 📁 police
- 📁 police station
- 📁 post hypnotic suggestion
- 📁 postmodern
- 📁 prayer
- 📁 pregnancy
- 📁 prison tattoo
- 📁 prologue
- 📁 psychological torture
- 📁 psychopath
- 📁 pulling teeth as torture
- 📁 punching a wall
- 📁 punching one's fist into a wall
- 📁 rain
- 📁 recording
- 📁 reference to 9 11
- 📁 reference to princess diana
- 📁 reference to rene girard
- 📁 reference to the count of monte cristo
- 📁 refusing to give up
- 📁 remote control
- 📁 restaurant
- 📁 revenge
- 📁 ring
- 📁 risperdal
- 📁 rivalry
- 📁 rooftop
- 📁 running
- 📁 sacrificial victim
- 📁 sadistic violence
- 📁 scapegoat
- 📁 scene during opening credits
- 📁 schizophrenia
- 📁 school yearbook
- 📁 schoolmate
- 📁 scissors
- 📁 secret
- 📁 sedation
- 📁 self harm
- 📁 self mutilation
- 📁 selfie
- 📁 sense of taste
- 📁 seoul korea
- 📁 severed tongue
- 📁 sex scene
- 📁 sex with brother
- 📁 sex with daughter
- 📁 sex with sister
- 📁 shadow boxing
- 📁 shooting
- 📁 shot in the head
- 📁 shower
- 📁 shower cap
- 📁 silent henchman
- 📁 sin
- 📁 singer
- 📁 singing
- 📁 sister has sex with brother
- 📁 sleeping nude
- 📁 slow motion scene
- 📁 smelling
- 📁 snow
- 📁 sodium bicarbonate
- 📁 song
- 📁 south korea
- 📁 split screen
- 📁 split screen effect
- 📁 stabbed in the back
- 📁 stabbed in the ear
- 📁 stabbed with scissors
- 📁 stabbing
- 📁 stepping on someone
- 📁 stockholm sweden
- 📁 strangulation
- 📁 subgenre
- 📁 subjective camera
- 📁 subway
- 📁 suicide
- 📁 suicide by jumping from a rooftop
- 📁 suicide by shooting oneself in the head
- 📁 suicide device
- 📁 suicide of sister
- 📁 suitcase
- 📁 suitcase full of money
- 📁 sunglasses
- 📁 suppository
- 📁 surprise ending
- 📁 surveillance
- 📁 surveillance van
- 📁 sushi
- 📁 swedish
- 📁 tape recorder
- 📁 tape recording
- 📁 tattoo
- 📁 taxi
- 📁 teeth
- 📁 teeth extraction
- 📁 telephone booth
- 📁 telephone call
- 📁 television
- 📁 thrown from a building
- 📁 tie clip
- 📁 tied to a bed
- 📁 tied to a chair
- 📁 title appears in writing
- 📁 title spoken by character
- 📁 toilet
- 📁 tongue cut out
- 📁 tooth ripped out
- 📁 tooth torture
- 📁 torture
- 📁 trust
- 📁 tv news
- 📁 umbrella
- 📁 undressing
- 📁 unjust incarceration
- 📁 urination
- 📁 vengeance
- 📁 violence
- 📁 voice over letter
- 📁 voice over narration
- 📁 voice over narration by lead character
- 📁 vomiting
- 📁 voyeur
- 📁 wallpaper
- 📁 wanting to die
- 📁 watching tv
- 📁 woman bound and gagged
- 📁 woman sits on a toilet
- 📁 woman tied up
- 📁 world trade center manhattan new york city
- 📁 writing
- 📁 year 1988
- 📁 year 2003
- 📁 younger version of character