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A Bittersweet Life

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.

20051h 59mNRAction, Drama, Crime

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About A Bittersweet Life

Directors
Kim Jee-woon
Cast
Lee Byung-hun, Kim Yeong-cheol, Shin Min-a, Kim Roi-ha, Lee Ki-young, Hwang Jung-min
Genres
Action, Drama, Crime
Content rating
NR
Original language
Korean
Production countries
South Korea
Status
Released

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