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A South Korean movie very loosely based on a Japanese manga of the same name, and is the second and most well-known installment of [[Park Chan
Oh Dae-su is an alcoholic businessman with a wife and daughter who is released by the police after a night of drunken misconduct, and then is abruptly kidnapped without a trace. Locked inside a hotel room, completely cut off from the outside world except for a TV, and drugged with knock-out gas every so often, he eventually learns that during his disappearance his wife has been killed, and he has been framed as the murderer. Enraged by his predicament, he finds ways to pass the time, writing his memoirs, [[Took a Level
▲A South Korean movie very loosely based on a Japanese manga of the same name, and is the second and most well-known installment of [[Park Chan Wook|Park Chan-wook's]] Vengeance Trilogy, which begins with ''[[Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance|Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance]]'' and ends with ''[[Sympathy for Lady Vengeance]]''. The film also has several parallels to ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'', as well as [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to ''[[Titus Andronicus (Theatre)|Titus Andronicus]]''.
▲Oh Dae-su is an alcoholic businessman with a wife and daughter who is released by the police after a night of drunken misconduct, and then is abruptly kidnapped without a trace. Locked inside a hotel room, completely cut off from the outside world except for a TV, and drugged with knock-out gas every so often, he eventually learns that during his disappearance his wife has been killed, and he has been framed as the murderer. Enraged by his predicament, he finds ways to pass the time, writing his memoirs, [[Took a Level In Badass|training his fists]] and slowly inching towards his eventual escape.
But just days before his long-awaited breakout fifteen years later, he is just as mysteriously released, with nice clothes, money, a cell phone, a severely weakened psyche, a fugitive status and a million unanswered questions. With the help of a female Japanese chef named Mido and one of his old computer-geek friends, he tries to piece together the scattered clues of who took his life away from him, cutting down anyone who gets in his path.
[[Oldboy (2013 film)|An English-language remake]]
{{Unmarked Spoilers}}
▲Since this is a movie that has some mayor twists and surprises, watch out for spoilers.
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{{tropelist}}
* [[Affably Evil]]: Woo-jin is pretty charming.
* [[Always Save the Girl]]: {{spoiler|Oh Dae-su cuts out his own tongue to ensure he can never let Mi-do know that she is his daughter.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[The Bad Guy Wins]]}}: {{spoiler|Woo-jin gets his revenge, though he shoots himself in the head almost immediately afterwards.}}
* [[Batman Gambit]]
* {{spoiler|[[Brother-Sister Incest]]}}: {{spoiler|Woo-Jin and his sister}}.▼
* [[Bound and Gagged]]
▲* {{spoiler|[[Brother-Sister Incest]]}}: {{spoiler|Woo-Jin and his sister}}.
* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]: {{spoiler|An exceedingly rare heroic example: Oh Dae-su accuses Woo-Jin of
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* [[The Chessmaster]]: Lee Woo-Jin. And as the film picks up speed, [[Xanatos Speed Chess|he gets faster.]]
* [[Cycle of Revenge]]
* {{spoiler|[[Dead Little Sister]]}}: Pretty much the crux of Woo-Jin's motivation.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Woo-Jin practically IS this trope.
** His reason for locking up Dae-Su for ''fifteen years?'' {{spoiler|"You talk too much."}}
* [[Drop the Hammer]]
* [[Enigmatic Minion]]: Mr. Han, Woo-Jin's silent bodyguard.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: {{spoiler|Woo-jin tells the prison warden not to let Mido know of the incest.}}
* [[Everything's Squishier
* [[Eye Scream]]: Oh Dae-su stabs one of Woo-jin's henchmen in the eye with a broken toothbrush. We don't see anything gory, though.
* [[Face Death
* [[Fan Disservice]]:
* [[555]]: Averted, as the address - both the street number and PO box - to Dae-su's daughter's foster parents in reality belongs to [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811023601/http://www.firsthotels.com/en/Our-hotels/Sweden/Stockholm/First-Hotel-Amaranten/ a hotel in Stockholm].
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Woo-jin. So much.
* [[Go Mad
** And when he finds out that {{spoiler|[[Squick]] Mido is his daughter.}}
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Two
* {{spoiler|[[Incest Is Relative]]}}: {{spoiler|Well, Mido doesn't ''know''...}}
* [[Informed Self Diagnosis]]
* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]
* [[The Jailer]]
* [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]]: Quite a few different editions for the film have been released, including various limited editions.
* [[Love At First Sight]]: Deconstructed.
* [[Near-Rape Experience]]: Interestingly, [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[No Animals Were Harmed]]: Very Averted. Four real octopuses were used for the eating
* [[The Oner]]: A number of them throughout the film.
* {{spoiler|[[Parental Incest]]}}
* [[Psychological Horror]]
* [[Punch a Wall]]: A large part of Oh Dae-su's self-training.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''[[Titus Andronicus (
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Vivaldi's ''Winter'' plays while Oh Dae-su rips Mr Park's teeth out.
* {{spoiler|[[Surprise Incest]]}}
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{{Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix}}
[[Category:Seinen]]
[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
▲[[Category:Oldboy]]
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[[Category:Korean Movies]]
[[Category:Films Based on Manga]]
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