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.

Lee Byung-hun
as Sun-woo

Kim Yeong-cheol
as Mr. Kang

Shin Min-a
as Hee-soo

Kim Roi-ha
as Moon-seok

Lee Ki-young
as Oh Moo-seong

Hwang Jung-min
as Mr. Baek

Eric Mun
as Tae-goo

Oh Dal-su
as Myeong-goo

Kim Hae-gon
as Tae-woong

Kim Han
as Se-yoon
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A Bittersweet Life: When Mind and Heart Move Kim Jee-woon's "A Bittersweet Life" is less a crime drama and more a philosophical treatise dressed in the razor-sharp suit of a gangster film. From its opening invocation—"It is not the wind and trees that move, it is your mind and heart that move"—th...