15 years of imprisonment, five days of vengeance.
Oldboy
60Standing
61st of 194 in Korean Cinema
- Out-grossed 59% of Korean Cinema releases with reported figures ($18M).
- Returned 5.8× its budget, against an industry median of 2.4×.
- Momentum in the 11th percentile.
- Audience rating 8.2 from 10,257 votes, the 99th percentile.
- Cost
- $3M
- Took
- $18M
Blockbuster5.8× its cost
Against a Korean Cinema median of 2.4×, so this one returned 2.4 times what a typical release there does.
The money says blockbuster. What do you say?
The picture
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.
- Released
- 21 November 2003
- Runtime
- 2h
- Language
- Korean
- Industry
- Korean Cinema
Top billedAll 25 credits
- Choi Min-sikOh Dae-su
- Yoo Ji-taeLee Woo-jin
- Kang Hye-jungMi-do
- Kim Byeong-okMr. Han
- Ji Dae-hanNo Joo-hwan
- Oh Dal-suPark Cheol-woong
Made by
- Director
- Park Chan-wook
- Screenplay
- Lim Joon-hyung, Hwang Jo-yoon, Park Chan-wook
- Original Music Composer
- Choi Seung-hyun, Shim Hyun-jung, Lee Ji-soo, Jo Yeong-wook
- Director of Photography
- Chung Chung-hoon
- Producer
- Syd Lim
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