Robyn Citizen, TIFF's Director, Festival Programming and Cinematheque, discusses the shocking reveal of Park Chan-wook's OLDBOY. Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2004, Park Chan-wook’s revenge masterpiece is credited with bringing Korean cinema to mainstream attention in North America. The film begins on a dark and stormy night when an ordinary man, Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik), is kidnapped and inexplicably imprisoned in a tiny room for 15 years. Finally freed by his unseen, anonymous captor, the revenge-hungry Dae-su finds himself enmeshed in an even larger and more sadistic web. A sweeping crescendo of ferocious violence punctuated by squirm-inducing acts of mutilation — the unfortunate fate of a live octopus is already cinema legend — Oldboy treads the delicate line between art and exploitation with fierce intelligence and gleefully ostentatious high style. OLDBOY illustration by Justin Erickson #parkchanwook #oldboy