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A Bittersweet Life
Drama film with a runtime of 119 minutes, released in 2005. Presented in English.
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Synopsis
Writer/director Kim Jee-woon followed up his hit horror film, A Tale of Two Sisters, with this violent crime drama, A Bittersweet Life. Sun-woo (Lee Byeong-heon of Joint Security Area) is a devastatingly effective, but businesslike enforcer for Mr. Kang (Kim Young-cheol), a mob boss who owns La Dolce Vita, the Seoul nightclub where Sun-woo employs the sloppier, less reliable Mun-suk (Kim Rwe-ha of Memories of Murder) to keep things running smoothly. Kang is involved in a developing feud with another boss, President Baek (Hwang Jeong-min), when he goes on a business trip, leaving Sun-woo in charge, and discreetly asking him for a special favor. There's a "special" young woman he's been seeing, Hee-soo (Shin Min-ah of Volcano High). He suspects she's been seeing another man, and he asks Sun-woo to look after her while he's gone, and find out if she's cheating on him. If Sun-woo catches them together, Kang tells him, he should either phone Kang and tell him, or "finish them off yourself." But Sun-woo finds himself fascinated with Hee-soo, a cellist, and his inability to follow Kang's orders soon brings a world of trouble down on his head. Of course, Sun-woo is fully capable of making some trouble of his own. A Bittersweet Life was shown at the 2006 New York Asian Film Festival, presented by Subway Cinema.
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Cast
- Lee Byeong-heon
- Byung-hun Lee
- Kim Young-cheol
- Kim Yeong-cheol
- Shin Min-ah
- Hwang Jung-Min
- Kim Roi-ha
- Jung Yu-mi
- Lee Gi-yeong
- Eric Mun
- Lee Ki-young
- Jin Goo
- Oh Dal-su
- Kim Hae-gon
- Yeong-cheol Kim
- Jung-min Hwang
- Roe-ha Kim
- Dal-su Oh
- Gi-yeong Lee
- Goo Jin
- Yu-mi Jung
- Mu-yeong Lee
- Kwang-rok Oh
- Domashchenko Vadym
- Hwang Jung Hyun
- Choi Jae-geun
- Kim Gyeong-tae
- Jee-Woon Kim
- Kim Jee-Woon
- Park Dong-ho
- Kim Ji-yong
- Jo Sang-gyeong
- Choi Tae-yeong
- Ryu Seong-heui
