

On return to Chucky's bar, Joe finds the Stranger there with the woman with the yellow umbrella, his bodyguard Haeng-Bok. Joe tortures Chaney into confessing that the Stranger arranged for his imprisonment. Joe follows a delivery from the restaurant to a warehouse where he was imprisoned, and meets Chaney, its owner. She is able to help identify a Chinese restaurant that Joe's food came from while imprisoned.

While he recovers, Marie is taken emotionally by Joe's letters to Mia, and offers to help him further. Joe collapses from dehydration, and Chucky calls Marie to help. Joe spends a great deal of effort to determine if any of the men on his list are the Stranger, but they all prove to be innocent. While there, Joe gets a call on his cell phone from a man calling himself the Stranger, mocking him. Joe goes to his friend Chucky, and explains what has transpired. He spots the woman with the yellow umbrella and gives chase, but ends up running into Marie Sebastian, a nurse that offers to help. Joe is drugged shortly thereafter, and wakes to find himself outside with a cell phone and a small amount of money. One day, he sees an interview with Mia, who says she would forgive her father if she ever saw him. He compiles a list of all those who would want to imprison him, and writes letters to eventually give to Mia. Over the next 20 years, Joe quits drinking and works himself into shape, intent on escaping and getting revenge. Joe sees a news report that says his ex-wife Donna was raped and murdered and he is the prime suspect, while their infant daughter Mia was adopted. His unseen captors provide him with food, alcohol and hygiene items, but do not explain why he is captive. When he wakes, he finds himself locked within a hotel room. Before he passes out, he sees a woman with a yellow umbrella. In 1993, alcoholic advertising executive Joe Doucett gets drunk after losing a major account. It received a mixed reception from critics, with many finding the film inferior to the classic. Oldboy was released in the United States on November 27, 2013, by FilmDistrict. It stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, and Sharlto Copley. It is a remake of Park Chan-wook's 2003 South Korean film of the same name, and follows a man who searches for his captors after being mysteriously imprisoned for twenty years. Oldboy is a 2013 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by Mark Protosevich.
