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A Bittersweet Life

2005, Movie, 1h 59min

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.

Country: South Korea

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Reviews

Critic Sam Toy

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...hugely enjoyable, and beautifully brutal.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Kenneth Mcneil

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Den koreanske instruktør mestrer som få at være grov og blid, poetisk og pervers på samme tid. Det er uhyre humant troværdigt.

Read full review at Cinemazone

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A Bittersweet Life is a South Korean crime drama film directed by Kim Jee-woon, released in 2005. The movie follows the story of Kim Sun-woo (Lee Byung-hun), a loyal enforcer and manager of a hotel owned by a powerful crime boss named Kang (Kim Yeong-cheol). Sun-woo is assigned to shadow Kang'ss young mistress, Hee-soo (Shin Min-ah), whom he fears is having an affair with another man while he is away on a business trip abroad. Sun-woo becomes quietly enthralled by Hee-soo's beauty and spares her life when he discovers she is with another man. This decision sets off a chain of events that leads to a violent confrontation between Sun-woo and Kang's henchmen, ultimately resulting in Sun-woo's downfall

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