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Oldboy (2003 Bonus Episode)
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In this special bonus episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2003, we’re talking about South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy. Directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook (based on the comic book series by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi) and starring Choi Min-sik, Kang Hye-jung and Yoo Ji-tae, Oldboy is the middle film in Park’s so-called “vengeance trilogy.”
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/oldboy-2005), Carina Chocano in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-25-et-oldboy25-story.html), and Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/2005/03/23/oldboy-3/).
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