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A Bittersweet Life(Movie, 2005)

Original title: "달콤한 인생" (Korean/KO)
2h | Genres: Action, Drama, Crime
A Bittersweet LifeRating: 3.7/5 (with 390390 votes)
A Bittersweet Life (Korean: 달콤한 인생; RR: Dalkomhan insaeng; lit. "The Sweet Life") is a 2005 South Korean neo-noir action drama film written and directed by Kim Jee-woon. It stars Lee Byung-hun as Sun-woo, a hitman who becomes targeted by his boss after he spares the latter's cheating mistress. The film was released theatrically in South Korea on 1 April 2005. It opened on 265 screens throughout the country, and registered a total of 1,112,950 admissions by the end of its run. It was also screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. A 30 seconds longer director's cut was later released, featuring slight cutting and re-arrangement of scenes, swapping of music placement and some additional scenes that do not appear in the theatrical cut. The film received an unofficial Indian remake titled Awarapan in 2007. ()
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About A Bittersweet Life

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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"A Bittersweet Life" (2005) Trailer - Kim Ji-woon, Lee Byung-Hun(Trailer, 2:05)

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Additional Information

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Production country: South Korea
Shot in: South Korea
Original language: Korean (KO)
Spoken languages: Korean (KO), Russian (RU)
Translated into 24 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Malayalam (ML), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 04/01/2005
Creator: Kim Ji-woon
Director: Kim Ji-woon
Producer: Park Dong-hoon, Eugene Lee
Screenwriter: Kim Ji-woon
Director of Photography: Kim Ji-yong
Composer: Dalpalan
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"不归路"
"Dalkomhan Insaeng"
"달콤한 인생"
"Горько-сладкая жизнь"
"Кисло- сладкая жизнь"
"หวานขมปมชีวิต"

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