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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 |
| 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:
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Box Office
Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$10,080,094Company 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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Dolby Digital EXColor:
ColorAspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Sun-woo: Fuck. Off. Asshole.
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Trivia
In some alternate posters Byung hun Lee is shown smoking. But, in movie he never smoke. 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
Mu-sung: Apologize, then nothing will happen. "I. Was. Wrong." Three little words. If you say those three words, nothing horrible will happen. "I. Was. Wrong." Just three words.Sun-woo: Fuck. Off. Asshole.
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Alternate Versions
Two versions of the film exist, the original theatrical version and the director's cut. The director's cut's edits include slight cutting and re-arrangement of scenes, swapping music placement and some additional scenes that do not appear in the original version of the film. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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I had the luck to watch this gem at the Fantasy-Film-Festival in Frankfurt yesterday. It was shown in a theater with about 600 seats and against my expectations the room was packed with people.
In comparison with Oldboy or Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance the story is not as deep and goes more straightforward to the pure revenge theme. But this does not make the movie less enjoyable. The cinematography is brilliant and the main-character delivers a great performance. It contains beautifully choreographed martial-arts and gunfight scenes with references to masterpieces like Taxi Driver and Kill Bill.
Despite the fact it is very harsh in some scenes the humor does not come to short. The scene with a discussion of Korean-Russian wannabe-gangsters made me nearly wet my pants.