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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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
Director
Kim Jee-woon
Screenplay
Kim Jee-woon
Tagline
"When doing right goes very, very wrong."
Status
Released
Original Language
KO
Revenue
$7,600,000
Production
Bom Film Productions, CJ Entertainment
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October 14, 2025
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 profound than a simple revenge narrative. The cinem...
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