A Bittersweet Life

A Bittersweet Life

2005 · 119 min · KO · 7.4 (995 votes)
Dir. Kim Jee-woon · Starring Lee Byung-hun, Kim Yeong-cheol, Shin Min-a, Kim Roi-ha, Lee Ki-young, Hwang Jung-min · Music Jang Young-gyu

When doing right goes very, very wrong.

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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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This is a sleek, brutal journey into the heart of a man pushed to his limits. It feels like a stylish, melancholic descent into a world of betrayal and violent retribution, underscored by a profound sense of loss. The action is sharp, the mood is somber, and the consequences are devastating.

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