A Bittersweet Life (2005)
Directed by Kim Jee-woon
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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That's because everything Kim Ji-Woon makes seems to be awesome. I didn't realize it at first, because his films have never been the "OMG, stop the presses!" moments of their respective years, but have instead just been consistently great. " A Tale Of Two Sisters " is a meticulously built horror film, where what you aren't told is just as important as what you are told, a brain-bender more than a gross-out. " A Bittersweet Life " seems at first glance to be a John Woo style story of men and honor and guns and the like, but he makes the genre feel brand new, like he invented it.…
Distributors and festivals that have had success with director Kim Jeewoon's past films ("A Bittersweet Life," the kimchi western "The Good, The Bad, The Weird") will want to take a look at this, and a DVD life looks strong due to the controversy the film stirred up.
Apparently it's an epic serial killer flick from the director of A Tale of Two Sisters, A Bittersweet Life, and The Good The Bad and The Weird.
He’s done horror (A Tale of Two Sisters), crime (A Bittersweet Life) and even a western (The Good, the Bad, the Weird).
Principle titles include Chan-wook Park’s trilogy, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (2002), Cannes Grand Prize winner Oldboy (2003), and Lady Vengeance (2005), as well as Kim Jee-Woon’s A Bittersweet Life (2005).