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 cinematography is a masterclass in controlled chaos. Kim Jee-woon doesn't just frame scenes; he choreographs them with the precision of a ballet and the brutality of a street fight. Each frame feels like a…
“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.
- Status
- Released
- Original Title
- 달콤한 인생
- Original Language
- Korean
- Production
- Bom Film Productions, CJ Entertainment
- Box Office
- $7.6M
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What is A Bittersweet Life about?
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 …
Who stars in A Bittersweet Life?
The movie stars Lee Byung-hun, Kim Yeong-cheol, Shin Min-a, Kim Roi-ha, Lee Ki-young and more.
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