Product Description

Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is abducted and locked up in a strange, private "prison." No one will tell him why he’s there and who his jailer is. His fury builds to a single-minded focus of revenge. 15 years later, he is unexpectedly freed, given a new suit, a cell-phone and 5 days to discover the mysterious enemy who had him imprisoned. Seeking vengeance on all those involved, he soon finds that his enemy’s tortures are just beginning.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98542 in DVD
• Brand: Universal Studios
• Released on: 2005-08-23
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: Korean
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 120 minutes

Customer Reviews

Great movie, but... Eww! *SPOILERS*
Oldboy is a great movie, and it may even deserve a full 5 stars, however I just can't bring myself to give it a full 5.
I loved this movie, it had all the elements to be a 5 star movie, great script, great acting, and lots of unexpected twists & turns that keep you guessing til the very end! However, (and maybe this is just me...) once I got to the end of the movie, (despite the fact that it left me in awe) I almost wished that I hadn't...
Oldboy, in essence, is pure genius. But the utterly revolting incestuous sex scenes took off a star for me. It may be unfair, because those scenes did have a point, and because they added to the overall shock value once Oh Dae Su found out that Mi-do (his lover) was actually his daughter and that his captor had orchestrated the whole thing, their meeting, their friendship, and them falling in love. It was pure brilliance...
So why did I take off a star? Because of Dae Su's decission to forget the awful truth about Mi-do, the woman that he loved so much, being his daughter through way of hypnosis. It was tragic, it was brilliant, but it's simply not the sort of thing I would've done if I were in his shoes...
The verdict? 4 out of 5 Stars. It was a great movie with a tragic yet brilliant ending. However, incest is just gross... And Dae Su's decission to forget the truth in order to stay with the woman he loved is what stopped me from giving it 5 Stars.

Old Boy UMD
This movie is sick and twisted, your should watch this movie with your mom and your whole family to truly realize how screwd up the ending is. Keeps you guessing from beging to end.