Oldboy

On the data. Three things, and the order above is the order of quality as well as the order to watch in. The manga came first, serialised in Japan from 1996 to 1998 by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi. The film keeps its premise, which is a man locked in a room for years by somebody who will not say why, and then released with no explanation. Everything else is Park Chan-wook's. The manga's answer to why is a slight thing about a schoolboy grudge. The film's answer is not. The 2003 film won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2004. Quentin Tarantino was president of the jury and has talked openly about pushing for it to take the Palme d'Or instead. It is the film that put Korean cinema in front of a Western audience a decade and a half before Parasite. Two things are worth knowing before you put it on. The corridor fight, roughly halfway through, is a single unbroken side-on shot of one man with a hammer against a corridor of attackers. It took days to film and almost no cuts. And there is a scene in which Choi Min-sik eats a live octopus. Four octopuses were used across the takes, they were really eaten, and Choi, who is Buddhist, has said he said a prayer for them each time. If that is a problem for you, it arrives early and without warning. The twist is the structure. Nearly every article, list and video about this film reveals it, usually in the first paragraph, which is why the advice above is to go in cold. Spike Lee's remake in 2013 is the one real failure. It changes the central revelation, which removes the reason the story exists, and it took about five million dollars in America. Lee had a long cut that the studio rejected, and the released version carries A Spike Lee Film rather than his usual credit, which is how he signals a film he does not consider his.

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