Oldboy Trivia Questions

He ate four live octopuses for the scene; PETA condemned it, but the film defended it as culturally authentic Korean cuisine.

The theatrical ending shows Dae-su with the hypnotist; the snow death ending is from the manga, not the film.

Choi Min-sik ate it in one take; the octopus was real but he prepared by going vegetarian for a month beforehand.

Lee Woo-jin was never imprisoned; his sister was institutionalized after their incest, which drove his revenge against Dae-su.

The iconic corridor fight is actually two shots seamlessly stitched together with digital trickery, not a single unbroken take.

Early drafts included musical numbers, but he scrapped them for realism; the final film retains only one surreal song sequence.

Park cited side-scrolling beat-em-up games as an influence for the hallway fight, but the hammer weapon came from the original manga.

Spielberg and Will Smith acquired rights in 2004 to adapt it, but the project stalled and eventually became Spike Lee's 2013 remake.