Oldboy

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Oldboy is a 2003 movie by Park chan-wook. This movie is based on the 1997 Japanese comic book. It is a mystery action movie about match of Oh Dae-su who was confined in private jail during 15 year (even he didn't know why he is caged) and Lee woo-jin who confined Oh because of revenge. Especially this movie treat human's hatred and revenge in detail and use nice visual techniques to deal with sensational material.

The movie was nominated for many international movie festivals. It won 31 of these including Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004.