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Let's just say that almost all modern media with a Hallway Fight owes something to this film.But being more specific...

Anime and Manga

  • Chainsaw Man: Denji has a fight scene against a group of baseball bat toting assailants in a corridor in chapter 137, slaughtering his way through them and finishing the fight dripping blood with a grin on his face. It's very likely, given Fujimoto's love of cimema, that this is a reference to this movie.

Film

  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier: The South Korean version of the movie shows this film as one of the things Steve Rogers has noted down to watch to catch up on culture since he's been frozen.
  • The Raid: Yet another Oldboy-inspired hallway battle, which actually managed to become iconic in its own right in Asian cinema.

Live-Action TV

  • Daredevil: Matt fights a group of assailants in a corridor, filmed as The Oner; the crew explicitly comfirmed this as a reference to Oldboy.
  • Arrow: Although nearly a shot for shot recreation in parts of the above example from The Raid, Oliver is shown beating up guys in a corridor in The Undertaking in a way that definitely brings that movie's original inspiration to mind.

Video Games

  • Call of Duty: Black Ops: The character Jason Hunter has a 'Revenge' cosmetic that's a direct visual take on Oh Dae-Su.
  • A Way Out: One scene homages the prison hallway scene, to the point that the protagonist is shown using a hammer to fight.
  • Sifu: The protagonist fighting their way through a corridor in the Squats is directly shot to mimic this movie.
  • Cyberpunk 2077: A dead end alley in Heywood is strewn with corpses and melee weapons. Next to a hammer is a data shard detailing a conversation between a man who has been imprisoned for fifteen years and his mysterious captor.

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