
Oldboy(2003)
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.


“Revenge was never this sweet.”
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.

Song Kang-ho
Dong-jin

Shin Ha-kyun
Ryu

Bae Doona
Yeong-mi

Im Ji-eun
Sister

Han Bo-bae
Yu-Sun

Lee Dae-yeon
Detective Choi

Ki Joo-bong
Engineer Peng

Kim Se-dong
CEO
Lee Yoon-Mi
Boss

Ryoo Seung-bum
Person with Cerebral Palsy
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is a action, drama, thriller film released in 2002 exploring themes of factory, kidnapping, kidney transplant , revenge, disability, radical politics. Directed by Park Chan-wook, it stars Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, Bae Doona. A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
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