Latest Korean thriller a real cracker

Korean cinema is beginning to make its presence felt lately, with Kim Ji-woon’s horror A Tale of Two Sisters about to get the Hollywood treatment. Now comes the gangster thriller A Bittersweet Life (Tartan, €24.99) which delivers lots of bloodshed and does so in style.

Kim Sun-woo is an assassin who makes the mistake of not reporting that his boss’s girlfriend has been having an affair. Unfortunately, and almost fatally, his boss is far from amused.