After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.
- Awards
- 40 wins & 28 nominations total
Ji Dae-han
- No Joo-hwan
- (as Dae-han Ji)
Oh Dal-su
- Park Cheol-woong
- (as Dal-su Oh)
Seung-shin Lee
- Yoo Hyung-ja
- (as Seung-Shin Lee)
Oh Tae-kyung
- Young Dae-su
- (as Tae-kyung Oh)
Yoo Yeon-seok
- Young Woo-Jin
- (as Ahn Yeon-Seok)
Kim Young Ae
- Elevator Lady
- (as Kim Yeong-ae)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaChoi Min-sik trained for six weeks and lost twenty pounds to get in shape for the role of Dae-su, and did most of his own stunt work.
- Goofs(at around 1h 7 mins) When Mi-do is searching through the Internet for the word "Evergreen", you can see that the high school website already has been visited on that computer because the link is highlighted in purple colors.
- Quotes
Woo-jin Lee: Remember this: "Be it a rock or a grain of sand, in water they sink as the same."
- Alternate versionsPark Chan-wook stated on his solo DVD commentary that there is an edited version for television broadcast. It omits some of the more extreme violence and the love scene between Oh Dae Su and Mi-do.
- ConnectionsEdited into 365 Days, also Known as a Year (2019)
- SoundtracksBring My Love
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Featured review
I haven't written a comment on IMDb for about 3 years but was inspired to with this film. It is not very often that I come across a film by accident (World Movies on cable) and the spend the next day scouring the internet to find out information about it and can't get it out of my head! Anyway, yep there are plot holes, but Old boy borrows a lot from surrealism and you are meant to suspend your disbelief! I don't buy comments when people say "it is so unrealistic because he should've done this ..." because it is a surrealist film and meant to be unrealistic! For me the sign of a good film is if it sticks on your head! THis one surely does (althought I did have to look away a few times ... ) Loved it!!!! Work of cruel genius!!! (HOLLYWOOD - Please don't ruin it by remaking it!!!)
- Genevieve_X
- Jul 28, 2007
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Cinco días para vengarse
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,458,200
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $68,957
- Mar 27, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $17,592,355
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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