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A Bittersweet Life

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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.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 2005-04-01

Runtime: 119 mins

Director: Kim Jee-woon

Spoken language: 한국어/조선말, Pусский

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Original title: A Bittersweet Life

Production Companies: Bom Film Productions, CJ Entertainment

Production Countries: South Korea

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