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Awards

Asia-Pacific Film Festival 2004 - Won - Best Actor

Asia-Pacific Film Festival 2004 - Won - Best Director

Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2006 - Won - Best Foreign Film

Bangkok International Film Festival 2005 - Nominated - Best Film

Asia-Pacific Film Festival 2004 - Won - Best Actor

Asia-Pacific Film Festival 2004 - Won - Best Director

Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2006 - Won - Best Foreign Film

Bangkok International Film Festival 2005 - Nominated - Best Film

Bangkok International Film Festival 2005 - won - Best Director

Bergen International Film Festival 2004 - Won - Audience Award

British Independent Film Awards 2004 - Won - Best Foreign Film

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2006 - Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film

Cannes Film Festival 2004 - Nominated - Palme d'Or

Cannes Film Festival 2004 - Won - Grand Prize of the Jury

European Film Awards 2004 - Nominated - International Award

Grand Bell Awards 2004 - Won - Best Actor

Grand Bell Awards 2004 - Won - Best Director

Grand Bell Awards 2004 - Won - Best Editing

Grand Bell Awards 2004 - Won - Best Lighting

Grand Bell Awards 2004 - Won - Best Music

Hong Kong Film Awards 2005 - Won - Best Asian Film

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival 2004 - Won - Best Film

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival 2004 - Won - Critics' Award

Stockholm Film Festival 2004 - Won - Audience Award

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Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is locked up in a strange, private “prison” for 15 years. No one will tell him why he’s there and who his jailer is, but he is kept in reasonably comfortable quarters and has a TV to keep him company. On the TV, though, he discovers that he has been framed for his wife’s murder and realizes that, during one of the occasions in which he’s knocked out by gas, someone has drawn blood from him and left it at the scene of the crime. The imprisonment lasts for 15 years until one day when Dae-su finds himself unexpectedly deposited on a grass-covered high-rise roof. He’s determined to discover the mysterious enemy who had him locked up.