--- title: 'Oldboy (2003)' type: 'film' director: 'Park Chan-wook' released: '2003-01-01' runtime_minutes: 116 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Drama' - 'Action' - 'Mystery' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'South Korea' - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/oldboy-2003' review_count: 1 fandom_rating: '9.00/10' fandom_stars: '4.50/5' imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Oldboy (2003) 2003 · R · 116 min · Drama, Action, Mystery, Thriller · South Korea, Japan Original title: 올드보이 Part of: The Vengeance Trilogy ## Synopsis Oldboy (Korean: 올드보이) is a 2003 South Korean action thriller film directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook. A loose adaptation of the Japanese manga Old Boy by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi, the film follows Oh Dae-su, who is imprisoned for 15 years without knowing the identity of his captor or his captor's motives. When he is released, Dae-su finds himself trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence as he seeks revenge against his captor and falls in love with a young sushi chef, Mi-do. ## Credits - **Director:** [Park Chan-wook](https://cinepixo.com/people/park-chan-wook) - **Screenplay:** [Park Chan-wook](https://cinepixo.com/people/park-chan-wook), [Garon Tsuchiya](https://cinepixo.com/people/garon-tsuchiya), [Hwang Jo-yun](https://cinepixo.com/people/hwang-jo-yun), [Lim Jun-hyung](https://cinepixo.com/people/lim-jun-hyung) - **Original Music Composer:** [Jo Yeong-wook](https://cinepixo.com/people/jo-yeong-wook) - **Producer:** [Kim Dong-ju](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-dong-ju) - **Director of Photography:** [Chung Chung-Hoon](https://cinepixo.com/people/chung-chung-hoon) - **Editor:** [Kim Sang-bum](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-sang-bum) ## Cast - [Oh Dal-su](https://cinepixo.com/people/oh-dal-su) - [Song Sokze](https://cinepixo.com/people/song-sokze) - [Ji Dae-han](https://cinepixo.com/people/ji-dae-han) - [Yu Ji-tae](https://cinepixo.com/people/yu-ji-tae) as 이우진 - [Lee Dae-yeon](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-dae-yeon) - [Oh Kwang-rok](https://cinepixo.com/people/oh-kwang-rok) - [Choi Min-sik](https://cinepixo.com/people/choi-min-sik) as Oh Dae-su - [Lee Mi-mi](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-mi-mi) - [Park Jae-woong](https://cinepixo.com/people/park-jae-woong) - [Lee Seung-sin](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-seung-sin) - [Kim Byeong-ok](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-byeong-ok) - [Kim Su-hyeon](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-su-hyeon) - [Oh Tae-kyung](https://cinepixo.com/people/oh-tae-kyung) - [Kang Hye-jung](https://cinepixo.com/people/kang-hye-jung) as 미도 - [Yoon Jin-seo](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoon-jin-seo) ## Criticism on CinePixo Fandom rating: **9.00/10** (4.50 of 5) from 1 review — the plain average of every published rating. - **9.0/10** — [The Corridor Is the Whole Argument](https://cinepixo.com/reviews/oldboy-corridor-is-the-argument) by Vera Lindqvist, 2026-07-16 > Park builds a revenge film out of duration itself — one hallway, one take, and fifteen years that never leave the frame. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/oldboy-2003 Film facts: Wikidata (Q475693); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.