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A Bittersweet Life
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #932
- IMDb #1328
- Google retired #1287
- Rotten Tomatoes #101
- Letterboxd #734
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #557
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 64, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 90.
See the most agreed on films →A ruthless and impeccably loyal enforcer for a crime boss is given a simple task: discreetly watch over his boss's mistress. He is ordered to kill them both if he discovers she is seeing another man. When he catches her with a younger man, a moment of mercy causes him to disobey his orders, triggering a violent and tragic chain of events as his employer seeks vengeance.
Details
- Director
- Kim Jee-woon
- Writer
- Kim Jee-woon
- Studio
- Bom Film Productions, CJ Entertainment
- Released
- 1 April 2005
- Country
- South Korea
- Language
- Korean, Russian
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Box office
- $7.6M
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Cast
Full cast (78) →
Awards
8 wins & 14 nominations total
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