Action ·Drama ·Crime · South Korea · 2005 · 1h 59m

A Bittersweet Life

달콤한 인생

A Bittersweet Life poster
Director
Kim Jee-woon
Cast
Lee Byung-hun as Sun-woo Kim Yeong-cheol as Mr. Kang Shin Min-a as Hee-soo Kim Roi-ha as Moon-seok Lee Ki-young as Oh Moo-seong Hwang Jung-min as Mr. Baek
Crew
Kim Ji-yong — Director of Photography Choi Jae-geun — Editor Jang Young-gyu — Original Music Composer Dalpalan — Original Music Composer Kim Jee-woon — Screenplay Oh Jung-wan — Producer
Tagline

When doing right goes very, very wrong.

Synopsis

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.

Trailer A Bittersweet Life — Official Trailer
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Mood & Themes
buried alivehandlangerrevengefugitiveextramarital affairromanticenchant
Key Collaborators
Kim Jee-woon Director Kim Ji-yong Director of Photography Choi Jae-geun Editor Jang Young-gyu Original Music Composer Dalpalan Original Music Composer Kim Jee-woon Screenplay Oh Jung-wan Producer Choi Pyung-ho Producer Lee Eugene Producer Ryu Seong-hie Production Design Kwak Jung-ae Costume Design
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