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A Bittersweet Life
· 2005

A Bittersweet Life

Kim Jee-woon
loyalty and betrayal crime and violence forbidden love moral compromise revenge
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Synopsis

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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