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#8,532 All-time worldwide
#215 2005 releases

Movie profile

A Bittersweet Life

2005 · 119 min · Bom Film Productions

Action Drama Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $7.6M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$3.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$684,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where A Bittersweet Life ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #8,532 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2005 releases #215 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2005. Primary genre #2,326 Action of 2,939 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did A Bittersweet Life (2005) perform at the box office?

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A Bittersweet Life (2005) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $7.6M. In this database it currently ranks #8,532 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #215 among 2005 releases.

Worldwide gross
$7,600,000
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

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.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 1, 2005
Production
Bom Film Productions, CJ Entertainment
Countries
KR

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2005, A Bittersweet Life is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Drama, Crime title from Bom Film Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $7.6M. For comparison, it currently sits #8,532 all-time in the current chart set and #215 among 2005 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.