Oldboy (Three-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)

Oldboy (Three-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)
by Chan-wook Park

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Actor: Dae-han Ji, Dal-su Oh, Hye-jeong Kang, Ji-tae Yu, Min-sik Choi
Director: Chan-wook Park
Writer: Chan-wook Park
Producer: Dong-ju Kim
Writer: Chun-hyeong Lim
Writer: Garon Tsuchiya
Writer: Jo-yun Hwang
Writer: Joon-hyung Lim
Writer: Nobuaki Minegishi
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Korean (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Tartan Video

DVD Reviews of Oldboy (Three-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)

DVD Review: Rent dont buy.
Summary: 3 Stars

Interesting and unique story but it falls short of all the hype. I wont do a plot synopsis for this film due to a tight plotline, it would only spoil the ride for you. Although you wont guess how this will end it wont satisfy you like "the usual suspects" did. Most will not find pleasure in re watching this,save your $20 and rent this. Also, not for the kiddies. Nuff said.

DVD Review: Old Boy is a great movie!
Summary: 5 Stars

My Korean girlfriend had told me about this movie, so I ordered it. It is a fantastic movie. Very well made, acted and filmed. The story is amazing with some unique twists. I heard they are going to remake this in America and Speilberg is directing? Why mess with an already great film? Well worth owning. Superfast shipping, product exactly as described.

DVD Review: great
Summary: 5 Stars

great condition, almost new and the movie blew my mind. but the end is what twisted me.

DVD Review: Wow, mother of all twists...
Summary: 5 Stars

What can I say, as disturbing as it is, an awesome movie none the less. I love live-action Far-Eastern movies. This movie not only fits right in that gap but also lands one of the sickest twists I have ever seen in a movie to top it. Hollywood cannot even come close. You don't believe me, watch it.

DVD Review: oldboy
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie was awsome... i saw this movie when it first came to the states a few years back..when i ordered it i was hopeing it would come befor the weekend and it did perfict condision ready for the watching.. and i did fall back in love with how well this movie was made and the story..beleave me when i say this is not for kids and carefull watching it with your girlfriend they dont look at you the same after watching it with them.

Description of Oldboy (Three-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)

Tartan's top selling Asia Extreme title gets the deluxe treatment with this ultimate collector's set. Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter. After who, after a drunken night on the town, he is locked up in a strange, private "prison" for 15 years until he is unexpectedly freed. He's determined to discover the mysterious enemy who had him locked up.

In the realm of revenge thrillers, you'd be hard pressed to find more ultra-violent vengeance and psycho thrills than in the creepy story of Oldboy. This Korean import made a pop splash at the Cannes Film Festival and during its limited theatrical run thanks to the imprimatur of Quentin Tarantino, who raved about it and its visionary director, Chan-wook Park, to anyone who would listen. It's easy to see why QT fell in love with the grindhouse attitude, fast-paced action, violent imagery, and icy-black humor, but it's a disservice to think of Oldboy as another Tarantino homage or knockoff. The darkly existential undercurrent in the themes that Oldboy traces over its life-long narrative arc is much more complex and deeply disturbing than anything of its kind. The movie's tagline is, "15 years of imprisonment... 5 days of vengeance." The imprisonee is Oh Dae-Su, an ordinary Joe who is snatched off a Seoul street corner and locked away in a dank, windowless fleabag hotel room for the aforementioned 15 years. Just as abruptly he is released, and thus the five days begin. Why did this happen to Oh Dae-Su? Ah, but that would be telling, and in fact we don't know ourselves until the final wrenching scenes.

Oldboy breaks into a classic three-act saga, the first of which details the hallucinatory period of imprisonment in which Oh Dae-Su wades from mild insanity to outright psychosis in the hands of unseen yet attentive captors. Act 2 is the revenge, when an entirely different tone takes over and Oh Dae-Su moves with single-minded purpose and clarity. It's this section that has gained the most notoriety, primarily for the claw-hammer dentistry scene, the one-man-army tracking shot, and the wriggling octopus that Oh Dae-Su consumes in a sushi bar (he's been dead so long he simply needs life back inside him in any way possible). In act 3, answers finally start to emerge and the sinister atmosphere grows even more profound--not without a healthy dose of extra bloodletting, of course. Oldboy is an undeniably poetic masterpiece of tension, fury, and dynamic craft. Ultimately, its epic cycle of tragedy is of the sort that mankind has been inflicting upon itself for all time. Some of the images may be gruesome, but all converge into a kind of beauty. It's in the telling of this lurid tale that these details become one and the memories of pain ultimately heal. --Ted Fry

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