Oldboy
Where the DNA of Oldboy travels
Films that shaped it
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I have always been inspired by Melville. Le Cercle Rouge taught me how to build tension without dialogue, through the meticulous actions of the characters. This was very important for films like Oldboy.
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I'm not so much of an admirer of American films, but I've liked David Lynch for a very long time. I like the atmosphere in his films. Eraserhead especially had a great impact on me.
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Oldboy is itself world cinema DNA, a South Korean film that influenced Western filmmakers profoundly, including Tarantino and Spike Lee. But its own roots are in a Korean cinema tradition that found in genre films a way to process the country's traumatic history. The hallway fight, one man against many, a single continuous take, became one of the most imitated action sequences in cinema. Oldboy is streaming on the Criterion Channel alongside the full vengeance trilogy.
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Oldboy is itself world cinema DNA, a South Korean film that influenced Western filmmakers profoundly, including Tarantino and Spike Lee. But its own roots are in a Korean cinema tradition that found in genre films a way to process the country's traumatic history. The hallway fight, one man against many, a single continuous take, became one of the most imitated action sequences in cinema. Oldboy is streaming on the Criterion Channel alongside the full vengeance trilogy.
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Oldboy is itself world cinema DNA, a South Korean film that influenced Western filmmakers profoundly, including Tarantino and Spike Lee. But its own roots are in a Korean cinema tradition that found in genre films a way to process the country's traumatic history. The hallway fight, one man against many, a single continuous take, became one of the most imitated action sequences in cinema. Oldboy is streaming on the Criterion Channel alongside the full vengeance trilogy.
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Oldboy is itself world cinema DNA, a South Korean film that influenced Western filmmakers profoundly, including Tarantino and Spike Lee. But its own roots are in a Korean cinema tradition that found in genre films a way to process the country's traumatic history. The hallway fight, one man against many, a single continuous take, became one of the most imitated action sequences in cinema. Oldboy is streaming on the Criterion Channel alongside the full vengeance trilogy.
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Violent Cop Atlas note
Oldboy is itself world cinema DNA, a South Korean film that influenced Western filmmakers profoundly, including Tarantino and Spike Lee. But its own roots are in a Korean cinema tradition that found in genre films a way to process the country's traumatic history. The hallway fight, one man against many, a single continuous take, became one of the most imitated action sequences in cinema. Oldboy is streaming on the Criterion Channel alongside the full vengeance trilogy.
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Atlas note
Oldboy is itself world cinema DNA, a South Korean film that influenced Western filmmakers profoundly, including Tarantino and Spike Lee. But its own roots are in a Korean cinema tradition that found in genre films a way to process the country's traumatic history. The hallway fight, one man against many, a single continuous take, became one of the most imitated action sequences in cinema. Oldboy is streaming on the Criterion Channel alongside the full vengeance trilogy.
