Directed by Park Chan-wuk, the director of drama hit "JSA - Joint Security Area" and "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance", action suspenser "Old Boy" tells a story from a Japanese comic book of the same title.
Oh Dae-soo (Choi Min-sik) is a business man who is suddenly kidnapped and confined in a cell with only a television set. He makes various efforts to escape and even attempts to commit suicide, but all end up in failure. Dae-soo one day watches a news about his wife being murdered and he being wanted by the police. Feeling shocked and deeply grieved, Dae-soo begins to dig a hole in the room with a spoon to get his way out to revenge the lost of his wife on the real culprit.
After 15 years, Dae-soo succeeds in escaping from the cell and returns to the society. He runs into a girl called Midom, who promised to help him to trace the whole story. Meanwhile a suspicious man called Woo Jin (Yoo Ju-tae) proposes a game with Dae-soo. He says if Dae-soo finds out the reason for his imprisonment within 5 days, he will kill himself; otherwise, Mido will be killed…
Starring Choi Min-sik from "Shiri" and Yoo Ji-tae from "Into the Mirror", "Old Boy" demonstrates Park's cinematic techniques using computer graphics and a collage of images to tell the mystery. Check out this latest work of Park that has brought Korean film to a new high in international cinema.
"Old Boy's" artistic efforts were honored with the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. [Quelle: YesAsia.com]
Cast & Crew
| Regisseur: | Chan-wook PARK |
| Autor: | Garon TSUCHIYA |
| Screenplay: | Jo-yun HWANG Chun-hyeong LIM Chan-wook PARK |
| Produzent: | Seung-yong LIM |
| Ausführender Produzent: | Dong-ju KIM |
| Musik: | Yeong-Wook JO |
| Kamera: | Jeong-hun JEONG |
| Besetzung: | Min-sik CHOI als Dae-su Oh Ji-tae YU als Woo-jin Lee Hye-jeong KANG als Mi-do Dae-Han JI als No Joo-hwan Dal-Su OH als Park Cheol-woong Byeong-ok KIM als Mr. Han Seung-Shin LEE als Yoo Hyung-ja Jin-seo YUN als Lee soo-ah Dae-yeon LEE als Beggar Kwang-rok OH als Suicidal Man Tae-kyung OH als Young Dae-su Yeon-suk AHN als Young Woo-jin Il-han OO als Young Joo-hwan Su-hyeon KIM Su-kyeong YUN Myeong-sin PARK |
technische Daten der Disc
| Medium: | DVD |
| Region: | Code 3 [Süd-Korea ] |
| Casetype: | Sonderverpackung |
| Disctyp: | DVD 9 [Film] DVD 9 [Bonusmaterial] |
| Bildformat: | 2.35:1 [anamorph] |
| Videocodec: | MPEG-2 |
| Videodetails: | Resolution: 480i NTSC Color Space: Rec.601 8bit |
| Tonformate: | Koreanisch Dolby Digital Stereo (2.0) [O-Ton] Koreanisch DTS 5.1 [O-Ton] |
| Untertitel: | Koreanisch, Englisch |
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