Find out how and where to watch "Oldboy" online on Netflix, Prime Video, and Hotstar today – including 4K and free options. Notes "Old Boy" is the second installment in director Park Chan-Wook 's "revenge trilogy" - story lines are not related. "Old Boy" premiered at the 57th Cannes Film Festival, where the jury, chaired by Quentin Tarantino, awarded Oldboy the Grand Prix. Oldboy is a 2013 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Spike Lee, written by Mark Protosevich, and starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, and Sharlto Copley. It is a remake of the 2003 South Korean film of the same name, which itself is loosely based on the Japanese manga of the same name. It follows a man (Brolin) who searches for his captors after being mysteriously imprisoned for twenty years. Oldboy was released theatrically in the United States on November 27, 2013, by ... After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.
