• Director(s)

    Park Chan-wook

  • Production Year

    2003

  • Release date

    02/08/2019

  • Genre(s)

    Action, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    120m

  • Cast

    Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang

Film

Oldboy

strong violence

OLDBOY is a South Korean action thriller, from 2003, in which a man has to work out why he was held captive for fifteen years.…

OLDBOY is a South Korean action thriller, from 2003, in which a man has to work out why he was held captive for fifteen years.

violence
Violence is bloody and sometimes sadistic, including a scene in which a man's teeth are removed with a hammer. There is also a scene in which a man cuts off his own tongue with scissors.
additional issues
The film also contains a scene of sexual assault, references to incest, scenes of strong sex and sexual activity, nudity, suicide and attempted suicide, and strong language ('f**k'). In one scene a man eats a live octopus. While at least one animal was killed in order to create this sequence, octopuses are invertebrates and therefore do not comprise 'protected animals' within the meaning of the Animal Welfare Act 2006. This means there are no grounds on which to intervene under the terms of the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937. However, some viewers may find the scene disturbing or upsetting.

  • Director(s)

    Park Chan-wook

  • Production Year

    2003

  • Release date

    02/08/2019

  • Genre(s)

    Action, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    120m

  • Cast

    Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang

strong violence
Classified Date:
28/06/2019
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Arrow Film Distributors Ltd
violence
Violence is bloody and sometimes sadistic, including a scene in which a man's teeth are removed with a hammer. There is also a scene in which a man cuts off his own tongue with scissors.
additional issues
The film also contains a scene of sexual assault, references to incest, scenes of strong sex and sexual activity, nudity, suicide and attempted suicide, and strong language ('f**k'). In one scene a man eats a live octopus. While at least one animal was killed in order to create this sequence, octopuses are invertebrates and therefore do not comprise 'protected animals' within the meaning of the Animal Welfare Act 2006. This means there are no grounds on which to intervene under the terms of the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937. However, some viewers may find the scene disturbing or upsetting.
Contains strong violence
Classified Date:
14/09/2004
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Tartan Films
Contains frequent strong violence
Classified Date:
27/10/2006
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Tartan Video Ltd
violence
Violence is bloody and sometimes sadistic, including a scene in which a man's teeth are removed with a hammer. There is also a scene in which a man cuts off his own tongue with scissors.
additional issues
The film also contains a scene of sexual assault, references to incest, scenes of strong sex and sexual activity, nudity, suicide and attempted suicide, and strong language ('f**k'). In one scene a man eats a live octopus. While at least one animal was killed in order to create this sequence, octopuses are invertebrates and therefore do not comprise 'protected animals' within the meaning of the Animal Welfare Act 2006. This means there are no grounds on which to intervene under the terms of the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937. However, some viewers may find the scene disturbing or upsetting.
Contains frequent strong violence
Classified Date:
02/03/2005
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Tartan Video Ltd
violence
There are frequent scenes of strong violence including a sadistic scene of torture in which a man has his teeth extracted with a claw hammer, as well as sight of man having his tongue ripped out with bloody impact detail. There are also fight scenes in which men exchange kicks and punches with strong bloody impact detail.
additional issues
There is a scene in which a character eats a live octopus. There is a scene of strong sex featuring breast and buttock nudity and strong thrusting detail. There are uses of strong language ('f**k').
Classified Date:
18/07/2019
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Arrow Film Distributors Ltd
Paperwork Remarks:
Trailer
Classified Date:
16/09/2004
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Tartan Films
Classified Date:
08/09/2004
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Tartan Films

  • Classified date

    28/06/2019

  • BBFC reference

    BFF201523

  • Language

    Korean