When doing right goes very, very wrong.
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.
- 7.4
- 2005
- Released
- 1h 59m
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
Lee Hang-soo
Chairman Won
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
MikhailSonny
Filipino GangNico
Filipino Gang
Kim Soo-nam
Shoulder BagKang Young-gu
Shoulder BagJeong Goo-jin
Shoulder BagWang Deok-sang
Shoulder BagJang Jae-yong
Recording Studio EngineerLee Ahn-gyoo
Recording Studio SeniorJeon Na-hyeon
So-yeong
Park Jin-woo
Cheol-moon
Woo Sang-jeon
Mr. SeongJeong Gye-soon
Grandmother
Jung Yu-mi
Mi-aeLee Jae-ook
Taxi DriverAhn Jang-hyeok
Passage SubordinateKim Pan-seon
Meeting Room SubordinateJeong Won-kyeong
Pit ShoulderJo Seon-haeng
Mr. Kang's DriverKim In-oh
Night Club EmployeeSeo Jeong-hee
Lounge ManagerKim Hyo-hyeon
BartenderChoi Hyo-hyeon
BartenderSong Sang-ook
Lounge Male Employee
Kwak Min-ho
Lounge Male EmployeeKim Hee-jin
Lounge Female EmployeeKim Byeong-gook
Lounge New ManagerHong Eun-mi
Lounge GuestKim Jae-ok
Lounge GuestRyoo Chang-hoon
Recording Studio Engineer AssistantPark Jong-min
Recording Studio Male EmployeeLee Kyeong-won
Recording Studio Female Employee
Kim Ji-hoon
PianistYoo Joo-hyeon
ViolinistLee Ji-hee
ViolinistSong Jae-ha
ViolaKang Min-hee
Double BassistKwon Ye-ji
Hongdae Club GuestKwon Chae-yeong
Room LadyJeon Hye-min
Room LadyKim Eun-ji
Room LadyJo Seung-ryong
Waiting Room PlayerKim Tae-hee
Waiting Room PlayerKim Dae-yong
Moon-seok's SubordinateJeong Yun-Heon
Moon-seok's SubordinateBaek Dong-hyun
Moon-seok's SubordinateYoon Jin-yool
Leg CarSeo Joon-ha
Leg CarJeong Mi-hye
Middle-Aged WomanChoi Chang-kyun
Mr. Kang's Assistant
Park Seon-woong
Gyeong-pyo
Oh Yoo-jin
Korean Restaurant Employee
Park Seong-gyoon
Shoulder Bag
Released
ko
$7,600,000.00
- #buried alive
- #handlanger
- #revenge
- #fugitive
- #extramarital affair
Reviews
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