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| director = Park Chan-wook | producer = Im Seung-yong Kim Dong-joo | writer = Hwang Jo-yoon Im Joon-hyeong Park Chan-wook | based on = | starring = Choi Min-sik Yoo Ji-tae Kang Hye-jung | music = Jo Yeong-wook | cinematography = Chung Chung-hoon | editing = Kim Sang-bum | studio = Show East Egg Films | distributor = Show East (KR) Tartan Films (US/UK) | released = | runtime = 120 minutes | country = South Korea | language = Korean | budget = 3 million | gross = $15 million〔 }} ''Oldboy'' () is a 2003 South Korean mystery thriller neo-noir film directed by Park Chan-wook. It is based on the Japanese manga of the same name written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. ''Oldboy'' is the second installment of ''The Vengeance Trilogy'', preceded by ''Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance'' and followed by ''Sympathy for Lady Vengeance''. The film follows the story of Oh Dae-su, who is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing the identity of his captor or his captor's motives. When he is finally released, Dae-su finds himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence. His own quest for vengeance becomes tied in with romance when he falls in love with an attractive young female sushi chef. The film won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and high praise from the President of the Jury, director Quentin Tarantino. Critically, the film has been well received in the United States, with an 80% "Certified Fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Consensus of Oldboy reviews )〕 Film critic Roger Ebert claimed that ''Oldboy'' is a "powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare". In 2008 voters on CNN named it one of the ten best Asian films ever made. A remake with the same title was released in 2013 in the United States. == Plot == In 1988, businessman Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is arrested for drunken behavior, missing his daughter's 4th birthday. After his friend, Joo-hwan (Ji Dae-han), picks him up from the police station, they go to a phone booth to call home to let Dae-su's family know of his whereabouts. While Joo-hwan is talking to Dae-su's wife on the phone, Dae-su is kidnapped. He wakes up in a solitary confinement in a hotel-like prison. Confined with no human contact or explanation for his kidnapping and frequently gassed with a possibly mind altering drug, Dae-su soon learns through news reports his wife has been murdered, and he is the prime suspect. Dae-su passes the time shadowboxing, planning revenge, and secretly attempting to tunnel out of his cell. In 2003, exactly 15 years after he was imprisoned, he is released without reason on a rooftop. Dae-su receives a taunting phone call from his captor, who refuses to explain why he was imprisoned. Later he collapses at a sushi restaurant and is taken in by Mi-do (Kang Hye-jung), the restaurant's young chef. After Dae-su, in a fit of insanity and the loss of the human touch, tries to sexually assault her, she confides that she reciprocates his attraction, and states she will have sex with him when she is ready. Meanwhile, Dae-su also tries to find his daughter and discovers that she was adopted by a Swedish couple after his wife's death. Recalling the dumplings he ate while in prison, Dae-su locates the restaurant that made them and tracks a delivery man to the place where he was held: a private prison where people can pay to have others incarcerated for an amount of time. He tortures the prison warden, Mr. Park, by pulling out 15 of his teeth (one for every year Dae-su was held captive) and for information. Mr. Park leads him to a recorded conversation between Mr. Park and Dae-su's captor, learning only that he was held captive for "talking too much". Dae-su finally finds his captor, a wealthy man named Lee Woo-jin (Yoo Ji-tae). Woo-jin gives Dae-su an ultimatum: discover the motive for his imprisonment in five days and Woo-jin will kill himself. If not, Mi-do will die. As Dae-su and Mi-do grow emotionally intimate, they soon have sex. Dae-su discovers he and Woo-jin attended the same high school, and remembers accidentally witnessing an incestuous encounter between Woo-jin and his sister, Soo-ah. Unaware of the familial ties, Dae-su inadvertently spread a rumor about the relationship before moving to Seoul. As a result of the rumor, Soo-ah suffered from false signs of pregnancy and committed suicide. Joining Dae-su's side after having his hand amputated by Woo-jin, Mr. Park agrees to incarcerate and protect Mi-do while Dae-su confronts his nemesis. Arriving at Woo-jin's penthouse, Dae-su admits he accidentally drove Soo-ah to suicide. Woo-jin reveals how each of Dae-su's movements were meticulously planned by him through posthypnotic suggestions, then gives Dae-su a photo album that contains photos of a girl from childbirth all the way to young adulthood, which ultimately turns out to be Mi-do, revealing Mi-do as Dae-su's actual daughter. The daughter he'd seen in footage provided by Woo-jin had merely been a forgery. Woo-jin had imprisoned Dae-su for 15 years so that Mi-do would be old enough to fall in love with Dae-su, and then used hypnosis to ensure that the two fell in love, with the intent on making Dae-su feel the same pain he previously felt. Horrified and enraged, Dae-su rushes at Woo-jin, but his bodyguard, Mr. Han, intervenes; the two fight, and Mr. Han easily subdues him. Woo-jin then calmly shoots Mr. Han and reveals to Dae-Su that Mr. Park is still working for him and will give a similar album to Mi-do. Dae-su begs Woo-jin to spare Mi-do the truth, pretending to be a dog and cutting out his own tongue as gestures of atonement. Woo-jin calls Mr. Park to tell him not to open the album then gives Dae-su the remote to his pacemaker. A still-furious Dae-su presses the remote multiple times, only for a tape recorder to start playing an audio recording of when Dae-su and Mi-do had sex, and Woo-jin calmly enters the elevator. Recalling his sister's death, Woo-jin shoots himself in the head as the elevator arrives on the first floor. Some time later, Dae-su sits in a winter landscape with the hypnotist whom Woo-jin used; touched by Dae-su's handwritten story and pleas, she hypnotizes him and alters his memories so that he forgets the terrible secret. Mi-do then finds Dae-su alone in the snow, and tells him she loves him before embracing him. Dae-su breaks into a wide smile, but it is slowly replaced by a look of pain, bringing into question whether the hypnosis worked. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oldboy (2003 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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