South Korea Synopsis
달콤한 인생
“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, Heesoo, 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.
Audience Engagement
773 audience reviews — more than 98% of South Korea films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 84th percentile among South Korea films.
Other Titles From Bom Film Productions
Action + Drama in South Korea
114 South Korea titles in our catalog blend the Action and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding A Bittersweet Life itself).
The 2004–2006 South Korea Window
Among 128 South Korea films we catalog from this window, A Bittersweet Life places #14 — near the top of its class.
The 2000s South Korea Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in South Korea, 321 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when A Bittersweet Life premiered alongside 44 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 44 other South Korea films in 2005.
The 194th South Korea title from South Korea we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our South Korea catalog contains 1,397 titles in total (931 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on A Bittersweet Life, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- buried alive · 1
- handlanger · 1
- extramarital affair · 21
- fugitive · 8
- revenge · 210
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #347 of 1,397 South Korea films indexed here (75th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.6 points above the South Korea average of 6.9/10.
Among South Korea Action productions specifically: #50 of 266 (top 19%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | South Korea |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Korean |
| Spoken Languages | Russian, Tagalog, Korean |
| Production Companies | Bom Film Productions, CJ Entertainment |
| Runtime | 2h 0m |
| Release Date | April 1, 2005 |
| IMDb | tt0456912 |
| Official Site | www.d-o-e-s.com |