When a loud-mouthed drunk is caged for fifteen years and freed, he hunts his jailer, with five days to learn why or lose the girl.

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When a loud-mouthed drunk is snatched off a rainy street and caged for fifteen years, he trains for revenge and, released without explanation, hunts his jailer; but when that man offers a wager, find the reason in five days or the girl dies, he digs into a schoolboy rumor he once spread about a classmate.

Film: Oldboy · Writer(s): Hwang Jo-yoon, Lim Joon-hyung, Park Chan-wook · Director: Park Chan-wook · Year: 2003