Asian cinema continues to challenge the complacent west and never better than with Korean director Park Chan-Wook's 2003 visceral thriller.
Oh Dae-Su (Min-sik Choi) is an obnoxious drunk bailed from the police station yet again by a friend. But he's abducted from the street and wakes up in a cell, where he remains for the next 15 years, drugged unconscious when human contact is unavoidable, otherwise with only the television as company. And then, suddenly released, he is invited to track down his jailor with a denouement that is simply stunning. Along the way comes his superbly choreographed fight against multiple foes armed just with a hammer, and the ingestion of a live octopus.
Oldboy is a Film programme that first aired in 2003 and has been classified a 18 certificate.
