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.
The 2004–2006 South Korea Window
128 South Korea films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. A Bittersweet Life sits at position #14.
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The 2000s South Korea Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2000s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when A Bittersweet Life premiered. 321 total titles in this decade from South Korea.
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 |