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A Bittersweet Life

Original title: 달콤한 인생

When doing right goes very, very wrong.

2005 · 1h 59m

Directed by Kim Jee-woon

7.4

TMDB audience score
1,060 votes, out of 10

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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.

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Cast

  • Lee Byung-hun
    Sun-woo

  • Kim Yeong-cheol
    Mr. Kang

  • Shin Min-a
    Hee-soo

  • Kim Roi-ha
    Moon-seok

  • Lee Ki-young
    Oh Moo-seong

  • Hwang Jung-min
    Mr. Baek

  • Eric Mun
    Tae-goo

  • Oh Dal-su
    Myeong-goo

  • Kim Hae-gon
    Tae-woong

  • Kim Han
    Se-yoon

  • Jin Goo
    Min-gi

  • Lee Hang-soo
    Chairman Won

  • Oh Kwang-rok
    Gangster

  • Jeon Kuk-hwan
    Chairman Baek

  • Lee Seung-ho
    Mr. Park

  • Kim Seung-oh
    Moo-seong's Subordinate

  • Lee Han-sol
    Moo-seong's Subordinate

  • Vadym Domashchenko
    Mikhail