A Bittersweet Life
달콤한 인생
When doing right goes very, very wrong.
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.
- Revenue
- $7,600,000
- Production
- Bom Film Productions, CJ Entertainment
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Cast
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
Jin Goo
Min-gi
Oh Kwang-rok
Gangster
Jeon Kuk-hwan
Chairman Baek
Lee Seung-ho
Mr. Park
Kim Seung-o
Moo-seong's Subordinate
Lee Han-sol
Moo-seong's Subordinate
Vadym Domashchenko
Mikhail
Kim Soo-nam
Shoulder Bag
Heo Myeong-haeng
Shoulder Bag
Park Jin-woo
Cheol-moon
Crew
- Director
- Kim Jee-woon
- Writers
- Kim Jee-woon
- Producers
- Oh Jung-wan,Choi Pyung-ho,Lee Eugene
- Cinematography
- Kim Ji-yong
- Composer
- Dalpalan,Jang Young-gyu
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badelf
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 cinematography is a masterclass in controlled chaos. Kim Jee-woon doesn't just frame scenes; he choreogra…