Expat Cinema: Oldboy

Expat Cinema: Oldboy

Park Chan-wook - South Korea - 2004 - 120 minuten - taal: Korean - ondertiteling: English

Focus Expat Cinema: every Wednesday at 19:00 foreign language films with English subtitles.

'A beautifully blood-spattered modern classic.'

The Guardian

Virtuosic and ultra-violent revenge thriller by Park Chan-wook (The Handmaiden, Decision to Leave), awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.

A loose adaptation of the Japanese manga of the same name, the film follows the story of Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik), who is imprisoned in a cell which resembles a hotel room for 15 years without knowing the identity of his captor or his captor’s motives. When he is finally released, Dae-su finds himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence. His own quest for vengeance becomes tied in with romance when he falls in love with an attractive young sushi chef, Mi-do (Kang Hye-jung).

Expat Cinema: Oldboy - Focus Filmtheater Arnhem