A Bittersweet Life

When doing right goes very, very wrong.

7.420051h 59mReleased

Action

Drama

Crime

Overview

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.

StatusReleased

Release Date2005-04-01

Runtime1h 59m

Languages한국어/조선말Pусский

CountriesSouth Korea

Revenue$7,600,000

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Videos

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Trailer

"A Bittersweet Life" (2005) Trailer - Kim Ji-woon, Lee Byung-Hun

Cast & Crew

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

Eric Mun

as Tae-goo

Oh Dal-su

as Myeong-goo

Kim Hae-gon

as Tae-woong

Kim Han

as Se-yoon

Reviews

badelf

Oct 14, 2025

10/10

A Bittersweet Life: When Mind and Heart Move Kim Jee-woon's "A Bittersweet Life" is less a crime drama and more a philosophical treatise dressed in the razor-sharp suit of a gangster film. From its opening invocation—"It is not the wind and trees that move, it is your mind and heart that move"—the film announces itself as something far more prof…

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