A Bittersweet Life (2005)

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120 min - Action | Crime | Drama - 1 April 2005 (South Korea)

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Ratings: 7.7/10 from 11,737 users
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Kim Sun-woo (Lee Byung-hun) is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculating crime boss... See full synopsis »

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Cast

Credited cast:
	Jeong-min Hwang	...	President Baek
	Yu-mi Jeong
	Ku Jin	...	Min-gi
	Hae-gon Kim	...	Weapon smuggler
	Roe-ha Kim	...	Mun-suk
	Yeong-cheol Kim	...	Mr. Kang (as Kim Young-Chul)
	Byung-hun Lee	...	Sun-woo
	Gi-yeong Lee	...	Mu-sung
	Mu-yeong Lee
	Eric Moon	...	Gun Dealer's Brother (as Eric)
	Dal-su Oh	...	Myung-gu
	Kwang-rok Oh
	Min-a Shin	...	Hee-soo
	Sang-Jeon Woo

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Kim Sun-woo (Lee Byung-hun) is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculating crime boss... See full synopsis »

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When doing right goes very, very wrong.

Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama

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Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean | Russian

Release Date:

1 April 2005 (South Korea) See more »

Also Known As:

A bosszú See more »

Filming Locations:

South Korea

Company Credits

Production Co:

B.O.M. Film Productions Co. See more »

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min | Argentina: 120 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

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Trivia

The narration that opens and closes the film are Buddhist parables. See more »

Goofs

Revealing mistakes: Toward the end of the film, when Kim Sun-woo is walking down the corridor searching for his former boss, a guard sitting and reading a newspaper gets up to stop him. Kim Sun-woo shoots him but his gun is not pointed at the guard. Rather, it is clearly pointed at the wall where fake blood appears after the shot like a paint gun. See more »

Quotes

Mr. Kang: Let's not make a fuss.
Sun-woo: This is my last place. I have nowhere else to go.
Mr. Kang: Do you really want to take this too far?
Sun-woo: [Ignores his question, rebukes] Why would you do this to me, Mr. Kang?
Mr. Kang: Because you did not follow my orders.
Sun-woo: No, none of that stuff. Tell me the real reason why. Were you really trying to kill me? Do you know how long I have worked for you? Like a dog, I have served you for 7 years! Why? Tell me anything. Anything. Tell me!
[shoots Mr. Kang]
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Connections

References Taxi Driver (1976) See more »