South Korean cinema is currently some of the most original and exciting in the world, with filmmakers like Kim Jee-woon, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-Duk leading a charge of genre-influenced cinema which has still struck a chord with the general public. However, my own awakening came with my first viewing of Chan-Wook Park’s incredible Oldboy. The second part of Park’s “vengeance trilogy” (bookended by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance), Oldboy details the seemingly random 15 year imprisonment of Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-sik), followed by his efforts to discover who confined him and why. Filled with memorable and violent
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