Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn't proceed by his boss's orders.
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Cast
| Credited cast: | |||
| Byung-Hun Lee | ... | Sun-woo | |
| Min-a Shin | ... | Hee-soo | |
| Yeong-cheol Kim | ... | Mr. Kang (as Kim Young-Chul) | |
| Jung-min Hwang | ... | President Baek (as Jeong-min Hwang) | |
| Roe-ha Kim | ... | Mun-suk | |
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Hae-gon Kim | ... | Weapon smuggler |
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Eric Moon | ... | Gun Dealer's Brother (as Eric) |
| Dal-su Oh | ... | Myung-gu | |
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Gi-yeong Lee | ... | Mu-sung |
| Goo Jin | ... | Min-gi | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Yu-mi Jung | ... | Mi-Ae | |
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Tae-hee Kim | ||
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Mu-yeong Lee | ||
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Kwang-rok Oh | ||
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Domashchenko Vadym | ... | Russian weapon smuggler |
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Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn't proceed by his boss's orders. Written by marinanic
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When doing right goes very, very wrong.Parents Guide:
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Country:
South KoreaRelease Date:
1 April 2005 (South Korea) See more »Also Known As:
A Bittersweet Life See more »Filming Locations:
South KoreaCompany Credits
Production Co:
CJ Entertainment, CJ E&M Film Financing & Investment Entertainment & Comics, B.O.M. Film Productions Co. See more »
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Mun-suk: C'mon Sun-woo, President Baek is my guest, show some courtesy.
Sun-woo: No, i don't care about courtesy.
Mun-suk: Don't do this to me, you may do this at your own club. Show me some respect.
Sun-woo: To you? You're kidding.
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The narration that opens and closes the film are Buddhist parables. See more »Goofs
Toward the end of the film, when Kim Sun-woo is walking down the corridor searching for his former boss, a guard sitting and reading a newspaper gets up to stop him. Kim Sun-woo shoots him but his gun is not pointed at the guard. Rather, it is clearly pointed at the wall where fake blood appears after the shot like a paint gun. See more »Quotes
Sun-woo: Send them away. I have no reason to talk with him.Mun-suk: C'mon Sun-woo, President Baek is my guest, show some courtesy.
Sun-woo: No, i don't care about courtesy.
Mun-suk: Don't do this to me, you may do this at your own club. Show me some respect.
Sun-woo: To you? You're kidding.
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This was possibly the greatest film I have ever seen. It was superb on so many different levels. The script, the fighting, the special effects all mould the perfect film. Within the first ten minutes i knew this film was going to keep me on the edge of my seat. I have never been so excited by action scenes before and never laughed with so much shock at the extent of brutal fighting. It is a genre of its own as it has none of that Hollywood business where the bad guys always fail and the main character is invincible and although love is a factor it is not overplayed. This film is electrifying to say the very least. It has more fist action than all the ROCKYs put together, more blood than Goodfellas and is as exciting if not more than a Tarantino film.