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A Bittersweet Life

Not Rated
Movie
2005
2h 0m
Korean
Action, Drama, Crime
Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.
Rating
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7.7
IMDB
A Bittersweet Life (2005) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
95

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Shin Mina
Hee-soo
Kim Roiha
Moon-seok
Lee Kiyoung
Oh Moo-seong
Oh Dalsu
Myeong-goo
Kim Haegon
Tae-woong
Kim Han
Se-yoon
Jin Goo
Min-gi
Lee Hangsoo
Chairman Won
Oh Kwangrok
Gangster
Jeon Kukhwan
Chairman Baek
Lee Seungho
Mr. Park
Lee Seungho
Mr. Park
Park Seonwoong
Gyeong-pyo
Kim Sungoh
Moo-seong's Subordinate
Lee Hansol
Moo-seong's Subordinate
Sonny
Filipino Gang
Kim Soonam
Shoulder Bag
Kang Younggu
Shoulder Bag
Heo Myeonghaeng
Shoulder Bag
Park Seonggyoon
Shoulder Bag
Oh Yoojin
Korean Restaurant Employee
Directed By: Kim Jee-woon
Written By: Kim Jee-woon (Screenplay)

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Random Cinephile says...
6 years ago
Neo-noir movie, a la Melville's Le Samurai. Good action drama with great style and action scenes.
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schmenky says...
4 years ago
1 / 2 directing & technical aspect .5 / 1 story 1 / 1 act I 1 / 1 act II .5 / 1 act III 1 / 1 acting 1 / 1 writing 0 / 1 originality 0 / 1 lasting ability to make you think .5 / 1 misc (entertaining) 6.5 / 10 I love Byung-hun Lee, but this is just another revenge movie. Really good fight coreography though.
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wrongbutton says...
2 years ago
This movie made me so nostalgic for mid 2000s flip phones.
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Jay Shuai says...
one year ago
Very good! Really slick and empathetic direction. 6.5/10
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