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.
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Cast
78 people
Lee Byung-hun
Sun-woo
Known for
Squid Game
I Saw the Devil
Kim Yeong-cheol
Mr. Kang
Known for
My Country: The New Age
The Innocent Man
Shin Min-a
Hee-soo
Known for
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Oh My Venus
Kim Roi-ha
Moon-seok
Known for
Memories of Murder
Connect
Lee Ki-young
Oh Moo-seong
Known for
Vagabond
Big Mouth
Hwang Jung-min
Mr. Baek
Known for
The Wailing
Hope
Eric Mun
Tae-goo
Known for
Another Miss Oh
Discovery of Love
Oh Dal-su
Myeong-goo
Known for
Squid Game
Oldboy
Kim Hae-gon
Tae-woong
Known for
When Life Gives You Tangerines
A Hard Day
Kim Han
Se-yoon
Known for
3-Iron
My Little Bride
Jin Goo
Min-gi
Known for
Descendants of the Sun
Mother
Lee Hang-soo
Chairman Won
Known for
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Kim Jee-woon Director · Dalpalan Composer Jang Young-gyu Composer
Worldwide gross $7.6M · First release April 1, 2005 · Produced in South Korea
Box office
Worldwide gross
$7,600,000
Production
Bom Film Productions
Production
CJ Entertainment
Production
South Korea
Produced in
Languages
Original title
달콤한 인생
Original language
Korean
Spoken on screen
Korean · Russian
Release dates
South Korea · April 1, 2005
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Australia
August 18, 2006 · Physical
Canada
July 6, 2006 · Premiere · Fantasia Film Festival
Czechia
December 2, 2005 · Premiere · Filmasia Film Festival
France
May 11, 2005 · Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
March 8, 2006 · Theatrical · Deauville Asian Film Festival
May 8, 2006 · Theatrical
Germany
July 29, 2005 · Theatrical
Greece
April 13, 2006 · Theatrical
Ireland
January 20, 2006 · Digital
Netherlands
May 3, 2007 · Physical · DVD
Portugal
March 2, 2006 · Theatrical
Russia
November 14, 2022 · Digital
Spain
October 9, 2005 · Premiere · Sitges Film Festival
United Kingdom
January 20, 2006 · Theatrical
April 24, 2006 · Physical · DVD
July 9, 2024 · Physical · Second Sight 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray
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