Oldboy

Park Chan-wook Is Producing an ‘Oldboy’ TV Series

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Park Chan-wook is bringing his iconic revenge thriller Oldboy to television for the first time. Lionsgate announced today they were partnering with Park on an Oldboy TV show. This would be an English TV series. Park’s film, released in 2003, was made in his home country of Korea. It was based on an acclaimed Japanese manga series by Garon Tsuchiya and … Read more

Extremely Grotesque: Park Chan-wook on Oldboy | Interviews

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Revenge is a very classical and mythological story subject. So is incest.  Because I’d already dealt with the division of the Korean peninsula in “Joint Security Area (JSA)” and class conflict within South Korea in “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance,” I didn’t want to handle yet another timely social issue in my next work. I wanted … Read more