An old story, explained:

Throughout the life muddle-headed and ignorant and has a liking for alcoholic drink if the Wu Dynasty overhaul ordering what once drunkly returns home on the road , sticking out round kidnapping , and is closed in a private prison that does not see light , the most only matter can do of every day is seeing television and three meals of a day the person who eats only fries Jiao. Learning on television , wife is murdered the unknown overhaul why to meet with kidnapping continuously , and the young girl whereabouts are unknown , and the police is doubted that the Wu Dynasty overhaul is a murderer , and dreads punishment for crime to abscond. In order to wash clearly the case of injustice , run away to go out from the intimate cave excavated at last after 15 years with the ladle. He has just spread out , and the average plans , but and he personal enemy plum has really " puts the words " , as long as he can guess kidnaps in five days the union has been locked up 15 years the cause , just can " give up the life " voluntarily What can round this cause of cruel recreation be actually ?

from the bootleg DVD notes of Korean film "Oldboy," 2003.