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CastMin-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang, Dae-han Ji, Dal-su Oh, Byeong-ok Kim, Seung-Shin Lee, Jin-seo Yun, Dae-yeon Lee, Kwang-rok Oh
Year released2003
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Policeman: "Sit down, Oh Dae-su, you’re way too drunk." (0:01)

His friend No Joo-hwan tells the policeman, referring to Dae-su: "I’ll make sure he doesn’t get drunk..." (0:03)

Dae-su rages. (0:07)

Dae-su: "When the gas is released, I fall asleep... the same Valium gas that Russian soldiers used..." Volatile anesthetic? 
”When I wake up, my hair is cut... generous bastards.” (0:08)

Television reporter: "... Oh Dae-su was a heavy drinker..." 
An insect crawls out of Dae-su’s skin. Hallucination? (0:09)

Men drag Dae-su across the floor, trailing blood from his wrist. Suicide attempt? (0:11)

Dae-su: "... What a fool." (0:20)

A man with a dog tells Dae-su, "The reason I want to die is..." (0:21)

The man with a dog falls to his death. (0:21)

Fight with traumatic head injuries (0:23, 0:43)

By telephone, Dae-su tells the caller, "... You hypnotized me in there..." (0:26)

Dae-su appears to fall unconscious. (0:28)

Sushi chef Mi-do asks Dae-su, "... Why did you faint...?" 
”... You fainted, so how else could I give you medicine?” 
Mi-do strikes Dae-su on the head. 
”... People I have met... have all hallucinated about ants...” (0:29)

Mi-do appears to hallucinate a large ant. (0:33)

Mi-do tells Dae-su, "... a map of your wife’s grave." (0:34)

Park Cheol-woong tells Dae-su, "... client confidentiality is our livelihood." 
Dae-su tortures him. (0:40)

Dae-su listens to a recording: "... Won’t he go crazy... we can drug his drinks... Risperdal... It’s a reliable drug used to treat schizophrenia, but it depends on the length of the treatment..." (0:48)

His high school mate Lee Woo-jin tells Dae-su, "... I’ll kill myself instead of Mi-do..." 
”... You have been curious for 15 years...” 
”... so that I can kill myself easily, at any time... I’ll kill myself first... the pain of losing your wife and child...” (0:53)

Park tells Dae-su, "... You’ll become brave as hell." 
Park appears to strike Dae-su on the head with a club off camera. (0:58)

Dae-su tells Mi-do, "You need not worry about the future..." (1:04)

Volatile anesthetic appears to come from under the door. (1:05)

Park tells Dae-su, "I put a hypnosis-inducing drug in your water." 
Dae-su: ”Sodium barbiturate?” (1:14)

By telephone, the hairdresser tells her friend, Choon-shim, "You silly cow..." (1:15)

A nun strikes young Dae-su in the face with a notebook. (1:17)

Dae-su punches a guard in the face. (1:29)

Dae-su tells Lee Woo-jin, "... That’s why your sister died." 
”Erasing my memory and telling me to find the truth was cowardly...” 
Woo-jin: ”Did you think you had forgotten that day because you were hypnotized?” 
Dae-su: ”... you realized it was a phantom pregnancy...” 
Woo-jin: ”... Ever heard of post-hypnotic suggestion?... We hypnotized both of you... both of you were highly receptive to hypnosis... no matter how receptive you two were to hypnosis, and no matter how good a hypnotist Miss Yoo is...” (1:30)

Dae-su has stabbed Woo-jin’s bodyguard Mr. Han, in the brain. (1:38)

Woo-in tells Dae-su, "... You moron..." 
Dae-su cuts his own tongue off. (1:40)

Woo-jin shoots himself in the head. (1:51)

Yoo tells Dae-su, "To be honest, there’s no reason I should help you... The hypnosis may go wrong... There’s no need to worry..." (1:51)

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