Digital release: 'A Bittersweet Life', 'The Foul King' & 'The Chaser'

Blue Finch Film Releasing are bringing three South Korean classics – ‘A Bittersweet Life’ (달콤한 인생), ‘The Foul King’ (반칙왕) and ‘The Chaser’ (추격자) – to UK and Irish digital platforms from April 8, 2024.

A Bittersweet Life (2005)
Kim Sun-woo (Lee Byung-Hun) is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang (Kim Young-Chul) 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 Foul King (2000)
Im Dae-ho (Song Kang-Ho) has been a huge fan of professional wrestling since his childhood. In South Korea, a wrestler called Kim Il was a big star in the 1970s, but Dae-ho preferred a cheating fighter called Ultra Tiger Mask. Years later, when his job at a bank isn’t going well, Dae-ho decides to try professional wrestling himself.

The Chaser (2008)
Joong-ho (Kim Yun-Seok) is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.