A Bittersweet Life
달콤한 인생
2005 · 1h 59m · Action, Crime, Drama · South Korea · Rated 18 (GB)
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, 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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