A Bittersweet Life vs The Bogus Policeman
The Bogus Policeman has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.4/10 for A Bittersweet Life). The Bogus Policeman is the shorter watch at 1h 31m compared with 1h 59m. The Bogus Policeman is the older of the two (1967 against 2005). Both are action, crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Bittersweet Life
The Bogus Policeman| A Bittersweet Life | The Bogus Policeman | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.4/10 | ★ 8.0/10 |
| Year | 2005 | 1967 |
| Length | 1h 59m | 1h 31m |
| Genres | Action, Crime, Drama | Action, Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Kim Jee-woon | Satsuo Yamamoto |
| Main cast | Kim Yeong-cheol, Lee Ki-young, Lee Byung-hun, Kim Roi-ha, Hwang Jung-min | Shintarō Katsu, Shirō Ōsaka, Yūnosuke Itō, Michiko Sugata, Daisuke Katō |
Synopsis
A Bittersweet Life
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.
The Bogus Policeman
Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doing one of his good deeds. He saves a child from drowning, restores it to his mother, then finds that someone has run off with his gun and later uses it to kill. Then he breaks up a group of hoodlums attacking a young girl named Mieko, and the police, his former friends, deciding he has gone too…
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