Although Oldboy and Squid Game are vastly different, a similar characterization can also be observed in Squid Game protagonist Gi-hun. Oh Dae-su uses these notebooks as journals to keep a record of his time locked away from the outside world. He’s provided with a pen and several notebooks. All he has is the TV to keep him company. He finds himself imprisoned in a hotel where he’s fed the same Chinese food every day for every meal. He hands the phone to his best friend, No Joo-hwan, and is then kidnapped without a trace of his whereabouts. Upon getting released, he makes a phone call to his wife and daughter. In Oldboy 2003, Oh Dae-su is a troublesome drunk that is arrested for his behavior on his daughter’s fourth birthday. Though these changes seem small, they play into where Oldboy stands in Spike Lee's filmography. Adrian Doyle Pryce only gives Joe 46 hours in Oldboy 2013. Additionally, Oh Dae-su is given five days to figure out Lee Woo-jin’s identity to coincide with the death of Lee Soo-ah. That leaves Lee's film as the lone true Oldboy remake, although it also contains a lot of notable differences.īoth films are based on Shinichi Gotō being imprisoned for 10 years in the manga, but the 2003 film increases that time period to 15 years while the 2013 remake doubles it to 20. However, the rights were never obtained, and Zinda isn’t considered to be an official remake. The plot for Zinda is almost identical to the storyline of Oldboy. Oldboy has even inspired a 2006 Bollywood film called Zinda, which appears to be another Oldboy remake.
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Notably, both the original film and the manga predate the long-running Saw franchise and other contemporary movies and series that deeply explore body horror. In the manga, Shinichi Gotō has the tracking device buried in his back near his right shoulder blade that Eri has to dig out with a knife. In the 2003 film, Oh Dae-su is being tracked by a bug located in the sole of his shoe. The manga is mostly incredibly similar to the main storylines of both films. Written by Garon Tsuchiya and illustrated by Nobuaki Minegishi, the Old Boy manga was published by Futabasha magazine between 19 throughout eight volumes. Both Oldboy films are based on the Japanese manga of the same name.
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