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A Bittersweet Life
Why this pick
Matches its solitary, tightly controlled Korean antihero, escalating criminal pressure, and sleek melancholy, while trading the rescue mission for a brutal reckoning with loyalty.
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MOVIE2010 1h 59m KOR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Won Bin
Cha Tae-sik
Kim Sae-ron
Jeong So-mi
Kim Tae-hoon
Kim Chi-gon
Kim Hie-won
Man-seok
Thanayong Wongtrakul
Ramrowan