Oldboy (2003 film)

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Oldboy

Theatrical release poster

Hangul

Revised Romanization

Oldeuboi

McCuneReischauer

Oldboi

Directed by

Park Chan-wook

Produced by

Im Seung-yong
Kim Dong-joo

Written by

Hwang Jo-yoon
Im Joon-hyeong
Park Chan-wook

Based on

Old Boy
by Garon Tsuchiya
Nobuaki Minegishi

Starring

Choi Min-sik
Yoo Ji-tae
Kang Hye-jung

Music by

Jo Yeong-wook

Cinematography

Chung Chung-hoon

Edited by

Kim Sang-bum

Production

Show East

company

Egg Films

Distributed by

Show East (KR)

Tartan Films (US/UK)

Release dates

21 November 2003(South
Korea)

15 May 2004(Cannes Film

Festival)

Running time

120 minutes

Country

South Korea

Language

Korean

Budget

US$3 million

Box office

$15 million[1]

Oldboy (Hangul: ; RR: Oldeuboi; MR: Oldboi) is a 2003 South Korean mystery thriller neonoir film directed by Park Chan-wook. It is based on the Japanese manga of the same name written
by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. Oldboy is the second installment of The Vengeance
Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and followed by Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.
The film follows the story of Oh Dae-su, who is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing
the identity of his captor or his captor's motives. When he is finally released, Dae-su finds himself
still trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence. His own quest for vengeance becomes tied in with
romance when he falls for an attractive sushi chef.

The film won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and high praise from the President of
the Jury, director Quentin Tarantino. Critically, the film has been well received in the United States,
with an 80% "Certified Fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes.[2] Film critic Roger Ebertclaimed
that Oldboy is a "powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the
human heart which it strips bare".[3] In 2008 voters on CNN named it one of the ten best Asian
films ever made.[4] A remake with the same title was released in 2013 in the United States.
Contents

1 Plot

2 Cast

3 Production

4 Reception
o

4.1 Critical response

4.2 Oedipus The King inspiration

4.3 Box office performance

4.4 Awards and nominations

5 Differences from the manga

6 Soundtrack

7 Remakes
o

7.1 Controversy over Zinda

7.2 American film remake

8 See also

9 References

10 External links

Plot[edit]
In 1988, businessman Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is arrested for drunken behavior, missing his
daughter's 4th birthday. After his friend, Joo-hwan (Ji Dae-han), picks him up from the police station,
they go to a phone booth to call home to let Dae-su's family know of his whereabouts. While Joohwan is talking to Dae-su's wife on the phone, Dae-su is kidnapped. He wakes up in a solitary
confinement in a hotel-like prison. Confined with no human contact or explanation for his kidnapping
and frequently gassed with a possibly mind altering drug, Dae-su soon learns through news reports

his wife has been murdered, and he is the prime suspect. Dae-su passes the time shadowboxing,
planning revenge, and secretly attempting to tunnel out of his cell.
In 2003, exactly 15 years after he was imprisoned, he is released without reason on a rooftop. Daesu receives a taunting phone call from his captor, who refuses to explain why he was imprisoned.
Later he collapses at a sushi restaurant and is taken in by Mi-do (Kang Hye-jung), the restaurant's
young chef. After Dae-su, in a fit of insanity and the loss of the human touch, tries to sexually assault
her, she confides that she reciprocates his attraction, and states she will have sex with him when
she is ready.
Meanwhile, Dae-su also tries to find his daughter and discovers that she was adopted by a Swedish
couple after his wife's death. Recalling the dumplings he ate while in prison, Dae-su locates the
restaurant that made them and tracks a delivery man to the place where he was held: a private
prison where people can pay to have others incarcerated for an amount of time. He tortures the
prison warden, Mr. Park, by pulling out 15 of his teeth (one for every year Dae-su was held captive)
and for information. Mr. Park leads him to a recorded conversation between Mr. Park and Dae-su's
captor, learning only that he was held captive for "talking too much".
Dae-su finally finds his captor, a wealthy man named Lee Woo-jin (Yoo Ji-tae). Woo-jin gives Dae-su
an ultimatum: discover the motive for his imprisonment in five days and Woo-jin will kill himself. If
not, Mi-do will die. As Dae-su and Mi-do grow emotionally intimate, they soon have sex. Dae-su
discovers he and Woo-jin attended the same high school, and remembers accidentally witnessing
an incestuous encounter between Woo-jin and his sister, Soo-ah. Unaware of the familial ties, Daesu inadvertently spread a rumor about the relationship before moving to Seoul. As a result of the
rumor, Soo-ah suffered from false signs of pregnancy and committed suicide. Joining Dae-su's side
after having his hand amputated by Woo-jin, Mr. Park agrees to incarcerate and protect Mi-do while
Dae-su confronts his nemesis.
Arriving at Woo-jin's penthouse, Dae-su admits he accidentally drove Soo-ah to suicide. Woo-jin
reveals how each of Dae-su's movements were meticulously planned by him through posthypnotic
suggestions, then gives Dae-su a photo album that contains photos of a girl from childbirth all the
way to young adulthood, which ultimately turns out to be Mi-do, revealing Mi-do as Dae-su's actual
daughter. The daughter he'd seen in footage provided by Woo-jin had merely been a forgery. Woo-jin
had imprisoned Dae-su for 15 years so that Mi-do would be old enough to fall in love with Dae-su,
and then used hypnosis to ensure that the two fell in love, with the intent on making Dae-su feel the
same pain he previously felt.
Horrified and enraged, Dae-su rushes at Woo-jin, but his bodyguard, Mr. Han, intervenes; the two
fight, and Mr. Han easily subdues him. Woo-jin then calmly shoots Mr. Han and reveals to Dae-Su
that Mr. Park is still working for him and will give a similar album to Mi-do. Dae-su begs Woo-jin to
spare Mi-do the truth, pretending to be a dog and cutting out his own tongue as gestures of
atonement. Woo-jin calls Mr. Park to tell him not to open the album then gives Dae-su the remote to
his pacemaker. A still-furious Dae-su presses the remote multiple times, only for a tape recorder to
start playing an audio recording of when Dae-su and Mi-do had sex, and Woo-jin calmly enters the
elevator. Recalling his sister's death, Woo-jin shoots himself in the head as the elevator arrives on
the first floor.
Some time later, Dae-su sits in a winter landscape with the hypnotist whom Woo-jin used; touched
by Dae-su's handwritten story and pleas, she hypnotizes him and alters his memories so that he
forgets the terrible secret. Mi-do then finds Dae-su alone in the snow, and tells him she loves him
before embracing him. Dae-su breaks into a wide smile, but it is slowly replaced by a look of pain,
bringing into question whether the hypnosis worked.

Cast[edit]

Choi Min-sik played the lead role as Oh Dae-su

Production[edit]

Choi Min-sik as Oh Dae-su; he has been imprisoned for about 15

years. Choi Min-sik lost and gained weight for his role depending on
the filming schedule, trained for six weeks and did most of his stunt
work.

Yoo Ji-tae as Lee Woo-jin: The man behind Oh Dae-su's

imprisonment. Park Chan-wook's ideal choice for Woo-jin had been
actor Han Suk-kyu, who previously played a rival to Choi Min-sik
in Shiri and No. 3. Choi then suggested Yoo Ji-tae for the role,
despite Park's reservation about his youthful age. [5]

Kang Hye-jung as Mi-do: Dae-su's love interest.

Ji Dae-han as No Joo-hwan: Dae-su's friend and the owner of an

internet caf.

Kim Byeong-ok as Mr. Han: Bodyguard of Woo-jin.

Oh Tae-kyung as young Dae-su

Ahn Yeon-seok as young Woo-jin

Woo Il-han as young Joo-hwan

Yoon Jin-seo as Lee Soo-ah, Woo-jin's sister.

Oh Dal-su as Park Cheol-woong, the private prison's manager.

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The corridor fight scene took seventeen takes in three days to perfect and was one continuous take;
there was no editing of any sort except for the knife that was stabbed in Oh Dae-su's back, which
was computer-generated imagery.
Other computer-generated imagery in the film includes the ant coming out of Oh Dae-su's arm
(according to the making-of on the DVD the whole arm was CGI) and the ants crawling over Oh
Dae-su afterwards. The octopus being eaten alive was not computer-generated; four were used
during the making of this scene. Actor Choi Min-sik, a Buddhist, said a prayer for each one. The
eating of live octopuses (called sannakji () in Korean) as a delicacy exists in East Asia,
although it is usually cut, not eaten whole. When asked in DVD commentary if he felt sorry for the
actor Choi Min-sik, director Park Chan-wook stated he felt more sorry for the octopus.
The final scene's snowy landscape was filmed in New Zealand. The ending is deliberately
ambiguous, and the audience is left with several questions: specifically, how much time has passed,
if Dae-Su's meeting with the hypnotist really took place, whether he successfully lost the knowledge
of Mi-do's identity, and whether he will continue his relationship with Mi-do. In an interview (included
with the European release of the film) director Park Chan-Wook says that the ambiguous ending was
deliberate and intended to generate discussion; it is completely up to each individual viewer to
interpret what isn't shown.

Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
Oldboy received generally positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten
Tomatoes gives the film a score of 80% based on 133 reviews. The site's consensus is "Violent and
definitely not for the squeamish, Park Chan-Wook's visceral Oldboy is a strange, powerful tale of
revenge."[6] Metacritic gives the film an average score of 74 out of 100, based on 31 reviews. [7] In
2008, it was placed 64th on the top 500 Empire movies of all time.[8]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars. Ebert remarked: "We are
so accustomed to 'thrillers' that exist only as machines for creating diversion that it's a shock to find a
movie in which the action, however violent, makes a statement and has a purpose." [3] James
Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film three out of four stars, saying that it "isn't for everyone, but it
offers a breath of fresh air to anyone gasping on the fumes of too many traditional Hollywood
thrillers."[9]
Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com praised the film, calling it "anguished, beautiful, and desperately
alive" and "a dazzling work of pop-culture artistry." [10] Peter Bradshaw gave it 5/5 stars, commenting
that this is the first time in which he could actually identify with a small live octopus. Bradshaw
summarizes his review by referring to Oldboy as "cinema that holds an edge of cold steel to your
throat."[11] David Dylan Thomas points out that rather than simply trying to "gross us out", Oldboy is
"much more interested in playing with the conventions of the revenge fantasy and taking us on a
very entertaining ride to places that, conceptually, we might not want to go." [12] Sean Axmaker of
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer gave Oldboy a score of "B-", calling it "a bloody and brutal revenge film
immersed in madness and directed with operatic intensity," but felt that the questions raised by the
film are "lost in the battering assault of lovingly crafted brutality." [13]
PopMatters and WorldsGreatestCritic.com journalist J.C. Maek III called Oldboy "extremely wellwritten and keeps all its cards hidden until just the right point to play each one. Oh, you might not like
where it goes (this one makes Kill Bill look like Rent), but if you can appreciate artistic merit in your
varied cinematic entertainment, then grow into Oldboy."[14]

MovieGazette lists 10 features on its "It's Got" list for Oldboy and summarizes its review
of Oldboy by saying, "Forget The Punisher and Man on Fire this mesmerising revengers
tragicomedy shows just how far-reaching the tentacles of mad vengeance can
be." MovieGazette also comments that it "needs to be seen to be believed." [15] Jamie Russell of
the BBC movie review calls it a "sadistic masterpiece that confirms Korea's current status as
producer of some of the world's most exciting cinema." [16] Manohla Dargis of the New York
Times gave a lukewarm review, saying that "there is not much to think about here, outside of the
choreographed mayhem."[17] J.R. Jones of the Chicago Reader was also not impressed, saying that
"there's a lot less here than meets the eye."[18] This film is ranked #18 in Empire magazines "The 100
Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010.[19]

Oedipus The King inspiration[edit]

Oldboy's director Park Chan-wook stated that he named the main character Oh Daesu "to remind
the viewer of Oedipus." [20] In one of Oldboy's iconic shots, Yoo Ji-tae, who played Woo-jin, struck an
extraordinary yoga pose. Park Chan-wook said he designed this to convey "the image of
Apollo." [21] It was Apollo's prophecy that revealed Oedipus' fate, in Sophocles Oedipus. The link to
Oedipus Rex is only a minor element in most English-language criticism of the movie. Koreans have
made it a central theme. Sung Hee Kim wrote "Family seen through Greek tragedy and Korean
movie -- Oedipus the King and Old Boy." [22] Kim Kyungae offers a different analysis, with Dae-su and
Woo-jin both representing Oedipus.[23] Besides the theme of unknown incest revealed, Oedipus
gouges his eyes out to avoid seeing a world that despises his truth, while Oh Daesu cuts out his
tongue to avoid revealing the truth to his world.

Box office performance[edit]

In South Korea, the film was seen by 3,260,000 filmgoers and it ranks fifth place for the highest
grossing film of 2003.[24]
It grossed a total of US$14,980,005 worldwide.[1]

Awards and nominations[edit]

Award

Category

Nominee(s)

Result

Best Actor

Choi Min-sik

Won

Best Director

Park Chan-wook

Won

Asia Pacific Film Festival

Best Foreign Film

Won

Austin Film Critics

Association

Nominate
d

Best Film

Bangkok International Film

Best Director (tied with Christophe

Barratier for Les Choristes)

Park Chan-wook

Won

Festival

Best Film

Nominate
d

Belgian Film Critics

Association[25]

Grand Prix

Won

Bergen International Film

Festival[26]

Audience Award

Won

Best Director

Won

Blue Dragon Film Awards[27]

British Independent Film

Awards[28]

Best Actor

Choi Min-sik

Won

Best Supporting Actress

Kang Hye-jung

Won

Best Foreign Independent Film

Won

Grand Prix

Won

Cannes Film Festival[29]

Park Chan-wook
Palme d'Or

Nominate
d

Chicago Film Critics

Association

Best Foreign Language Film

Nominate
d

Critics' Choice Movie

Award

Best Foreign Language Film

Nominate
d

Director's Cut Awards

Best Director

Park Chan-wook

Won

Best Actor

Choi Min-sik

Won

Best Producer

Kim Dong-joo

European Film Awards[30]

Best Non-European Film

Park Chan-wook

Golden Trailer Awards

Best Foreign Action Trailer (tied

Grand Bell Awards

Best Actor

Choi Min-sik

Won

Best Director

Park Chan-wook

Won

Best Film Editing

Kim Sang-bum

Won

Best Music

Korean Film Awards

Nominate
d

Won

with District 13)

Best Lighting

Hong Kong Film Award

Won

Won

Jo Yeong-wook

Won

Best Asian Film

Won

Best Film

Won

Best Actor

Choi Min-sik

Won

Best Director

Park Chan-wook

Won

Best Music

Jo Yeong-wook

Won

Best Actress

Kang Hye-jung

Nominate
d

Best Supporting Actress

Yoon Jin-seo

Nominate
d

Online Film Critics Society

Best Cinematography

Chung Chung-hoon

Nominate
d

Best Art Direction

Ryu Seong-hee

Nominate
d

Best Editing

Kim Sang-bum

Nominate
d

Best Sound

Nominate
d

Best Foreign Language Film

Nominate
d

Best Action or Adventure Film

Nominate
d

Saturn Award
Best DVD or Blu-ray Special Edition
Release

Ultimate Collector's
Edition

Best Film
Sitges Film Festival

Won
Park Chan-wook

Jos Luis Guarner Critic's Award

Stockholm International
Film Festival

Nominate
d

Audience Award

Won

Park Chan-wook

Won

Differences from the manga[edit]

The manga, which precedes the film, is considerably tamer and less
violent. No one dies in the manga except Lee Woo-jin's counterpart,
Takaaki Kakinuma, also by a self-inflicted gunshot on the temple.

Oh Dae-su is significantly different from Shinichi Goto, his manga

counterpart. Goto is considerably less tormented than Oh Dae-su;

Goto is remarkably calm and stoic, even during his captivity, unlike
Oh Dae-su. Also, Goto is a towering man in peak physique at the
time of his release in his 30s; Oh Dae-su is also on peak physique,
though smaller and appearing to be at least in his late forties; Goto
was imprisoned for ten years, while Oh Dae-su was imprisoned for
fifteen. Goto, unlike Oh Dae-Su, seems rather uninterested in
pursuing Kakinuma's ruse through the means of violence, instead
initially opting to pursue a peaceful life; his pursuit of his captors is
not driven by vengeance, but rather by curiosity, though he is later
lured by Kakinuma into their conflict.

Mi-Do's counterpart Eri is not Shinichi Goto's daughter, as Mi-Do is

with Oh Dae-Su. Eri was hypnotically lured to Goto just as a means
of surveillance and to burden Goto. As a result, Goto and his allies
move her out of Kakinuma's reach so she does not become a
target.

Oh Dae-Su and Lee Woo-jin's former schoolmate No Joo-hwan's

counterpart, Tsukamoto, is a professional acquaintance of Shinichi
Goto, and is not introduced to Lee Woo-jin's counterpart, Takaaki
Kakinuma until later in the story. Tsukamoto, a bartender, unlike No
Joo-hwan, who runs an internet cafe, survives the ordeal.

Kakinuma, unlike Lee Woo-jin in the film, is not successful in his

ruse against Goto; in fact, he is unable to break and ruin Goto and
his tactics ultimately fail miserably. The reasons for kidnapping and
imprisoning Goto and Oh Dae-su respectively are also completely
different: Goto unknowingly shattered Kakinuma's self-esteem and
left him emotionally scarred for life by feeling pity for him and openly
crying in music class when he realized Kakinuma's loneliness in the
manga; Oh Dae-su witnessed Lee Woo-jin's incestuous relationship
with his own sister and created a rumor that resulted in Lee Woojin's sister suicide. Kakinuma, unlike Lee Woo-jin, has no relatives
to speak of.

Albeit victorious against Kakinuma, Goto is left plagued by hypnotic

episodes at the end of the manga which worries him about Eri, who
was still vulnerable to hypnotic suggestion, as the hypnotist found
her to be mentally locked by Kyoko Kataoka, Kakinuma's
"assistant"; Goto does not know to what extent they have been
hypnotized or whether there might be any repercussions to the
manipulation that could cause them self or mutual harm. On the
other hand, Oh Dae-Su is left presumably emotionally crippled and
mute and his ultimate fate is left unknown.

Mr. Han's counterpart is an unnamed "Secret Service" agent that

reports directly to Kakinuma and directs his surveillance operations
targeting Goto. He later turns against Kakinuma as he finds his
harassing of Goto rather pointless.

Many major and minor characters in the manga do not have a

counterpart in the film, such as Yayoi Kusama, Goto and
Kakinuma's 6th grade teacher turned novelist, to whom Kakinuma
entrapped to document the conflict; Kyoko Kataoka, Kakinuma's
"assistant" and lastly, Kakinuma's "Referee".

Soundtrack[edit]
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from Oldboy

Soundtrack album by Jo Yeong-wook

Released

9 December 2003

Recorded

2003 Seoul

Genre

Contemporary classical

Length

60:00

Label

EMI Music Korea Ltd.

Producer

Jo Yeong-wook
Shim Hyeon-jeong
Lee Ji-soo
Choi Seung-hyun

Nearly all the music cues composed by Shim Hyeon-jeong, Lee Ji-soo and Choi Seung-hyun are
titled after films, many of them film noirs.

Track listing
No
Title
.

Length

1. "Look Who's Talking" (opening song)

1:41

2. "Somewhere in the Night"

1:29

3. "The Count of Monte Cristo"

2:34

4. "Jailhouse Rock"

1:57

5. "In a Lonely Place" (Oh Dae-su's theme)

3:29

6. "It's Alive"

2:36

7. "The Searchers"

3:29

8. "Look Back in Anger"

2:11

9. ""Vivaldi" Four Seasons Concerto Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297,

"L'inverno" (Winter)"

3:03

10. "Room at the Top"

1:36

11. "Cries and Whispers" (Lee Woo-jin's theme)

3:32

12. "Out of Sight"

1:00

13. "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

2:45

14. "Out of the Past"

1:25

15. "Breathless" (Lee Woo-jin's theme [reprise])

4:21

16. "The Old Boy" (Oh Dae-su's theme [reprise])

3:44

17. "Dressed to Kill"

2:00

18. "Frantic"

3:28

19. "Cul-de-Sac"

1:32

20. "Kiss Me Deadly"

3:57

21. "Point Blank"

0:27

22. "Farewell, My Lovely" (Lee Woo-jin's theme [reprise])

2:47

23. "The Big Sleep"

1:34

24. "The Last Waltz" (Mi-do's theme)

3:23

Total length:

60:00

Remakes[edit]
Oldboy (2003)
(Korean)

Zinda (2006)
(Hindi)

Oldboy (2013)
(English)

Choi Min-sik

Sanjay Dutt

Josh Brolin

Kang Hye-jung

Lara Dutta

Elizabeth Olsen

Yoo Ji-tae

John Abraham

Sharlto Copley

Controversy over Zinda[edit]

Zinda, the Bollywood film directed by writer-director Sanjay Gupta, also bears a striking resemblance
to Oldboy but is not an officially sanctioned remake. It was reported in 2005 that Zindawas under
investigation for violation of copyright. A spokesman for Show East, the distributor of Oldboy, said, "If
we find out there's indeed a strong similarity between the two, it looks like we'll have to talk with our
lawyers."[31]

American film remake[edit]

Steven Spielberg originally intended to make a version of the movie starring Will Smith in 2008. He
commissioned screenwriter Mark Protosevich to work on the adaptation. Spielberg pulled out of the
project in 2009.[32]
An American remake directed by Spike Lee was released on November 27, 2013.[33]

See also[edit]

Book: The
Vengeance Trilogy

Old Boy (manga)

East Asian cinema

Greek tragedy

Kafkaesque

List of Korean language films

List of South Korean films of 2003

Revenge play

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A Bizarre Love Triangle (2002)

Boy Goes to Heaven (2005)
Crush and Blush (2008)

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Snowpiercer (2013)
The Vengeance Trilogy

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Accident (1967)
I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967)
dalen 31 (1969)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Taking Off (1971)
Solaris (1972)
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Arabian Nights (1974)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975)
Cra Cuervos (1976)
The Marquise of O (1976)
19671989

Bye Bye Monkey (1978)

The Shout (1978)
Siberiade (1979)
Mon oncle d'Amrique (1980)
Light Years Away (1981)
The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Diary for My Children (1984)
Birdy (1985)
The Sacrifice (1986)
Repentance (1987)
A World Apart (1988)
Cinema Paradiso (1989)
Too Beautiful for You (1989)

19902009

Tila (1990)
The Sting of Death (1990)
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
The Stolen Children (1992)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
To Live (1994)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)

Ulysses' Gaze (1995)

Breaking the Waves (1996)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Life Is Beautiful (1998)
Humanit (1999)
Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
The Man Without a Past (2002)
Uzak (2003)
Oldboy (2004)
Broken Flowers (2005)
Flanders (2006)
The Mourning Forest (2007)
Gomorrah (2008)
A Prophet (2009)
Of Gods and Men (2010)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
The Kid with a Bike (2011)
2010present

Reality (2012)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
The Wonders (2014)
Son of Saul (2015)

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