OLD BOY
In this high-concept manga adaptation, already set for a Hollywood remake, a defiantly antisocial misfit finds himself enmeshed in an inexplicable and infernally baroque mindfuck. By the end of reel one hes been kidnapped, incarcerated in a mocked-up apartment, framed for murder, brainwashed, and put on a diet of shrimp dumplings and nonstop TV. He stays sane (more or less) by transforming himself into a rage-filled, revenge-ready one-man army. By the time hes cut loose 15 years later, he resembles a bedraggled desert-island castaway incongrously outfitted in a sharp suit. Park keeps the twists coming and handles the kick-ass setpieces with droll flair, steadily building to a denouement whose perversity is worthy of Jacobean tragedy. The final ignorance-is-bliss resolution, in which Parks protagonist frees himself from unbearable knowledge by submitting to hypnosis, would make Charlie Kaufman proud. (Gavin Smith)
- Choi Min-Sik - Oh Dae-Su
- Yoo Ji-Tae - Lee Woo-Jin
- Gang Hye-Jung - Mido
- Chi Dae-Han - No Joo-Hwan
- Hwang Jo-Yun
- Lim Joon-Hyung
- Park Chan-Wook nach einer Mangageschichte von Tsuchiya Garon und Minegishi Nobuaki
- Jung Jung-Hoon
- Lee Seong-Chul
- Kim Sang-Bum
- Cho Young-Wuk
- Yoo Seong-Hee
- Lee Jung-Soo
- Cho Sang-Kyung
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