A Bittersweet Life

★7.5

When doing right goes very, very wrong.

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.

Kim Jee-woon

Director

Kim Jee-woon

Writers

Kim Jung-hwa,Oh Jung-wan,Choi Pyung-ho,...

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01-04-2005

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7.5

Rating

885

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119 min

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Released

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Korean, Russian

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★ 7.5

Budget

Revenue

01-04-2005

Release Date

Country

7.5

Rating

885

Votes

Age Rating

119 min

Runtime

Released

Status

Korean, Russian

Language

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Director

Kim Jee-woon

Kim Jee-woon (Korean: 김지운; born July 6, 1964) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was a theater actor and director before debuting with his self-written and directed film, The Quiet Family in 1998. Kim has worked with increasing levels of success in cinema, showing accomplished acting and a detailed stylization in his films. He is currently one of the most recognized screenwriters/directors in the Korean film industry. His films A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and A Bittersweet Life (2005) were both critical and commercial successes. He is also known for the films The Foul King (2000), The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) and I Saw the Devil (2010).

6.8

The Foul King

2000, Comedy

7.8

I Saw the Devil

2010, Horror

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