Story Summary: The driving predicament of Old Boy is the central character’s obsessive quest to discover why he has been kidnapped and privately imprisoned for ten years and suddenly freed. The manga opens with the delivery of noodles to the “man on floor 7.5” in a Tokyo office building. The man’s windowless chambers contain little more than a bed, a television set, and a toilet, but to maintain his sanity he has practiced vigorous exercises to keep himself physically fit, with the hope that he might ultimately be able to exact vengeance for his meaningless suffering. Soon after the food is delivered via a narrow slot, three men wearing dark glasses enter the room to inform the prisoner that he has been released from the “private penitentiary” after serving his ten-year sentence. The man takes out his pent-up rage on his releasers, who knock him out and stuff him into a suitcase. They bring him to a park, empty him onto the ground, and shove some money into his pocket. When the man regains consciousness he looks up and sees the moon and stars, exulting in his newfound freedom. But this feeling is short-lived, as he becomes disoriented by the teeming life of Tokyo. He abandons an attempt to make a telephone call to access someone from his past, reasoning that no one will believe him. Nevertheless, he decides that he will fight back. As a test, he pretends to be intoxicated to tempt four hooligans to take advantage of him, and when they try to, he knocks each of them senseless; instead of taking all their money, however, he modestly pockets only what he will need to live for a few days, including some food and his first beer in ten years. His waitress, Eri, notices a cut on his face and bandages it. She later invites him back to her place to spend the night. She senses a kindness in him and proceeds to lose her virginity to this “man with no name,” who has not experienced the warmth of a woman for a decade. Item Description: Title: Oldboy Writer/Author: Garon Tsuchiya Language: English Language Volume: 1-8(END) Genre: Psychological Thriller, Action Publisher: WOS Limited Manga