Parents guide

A young couple are in home together. Nothing is shown but sex is implied.

Talks of cheating and extremely mild comments about sex.

No sex or nudity.

A woman is secretly seeing two men.

Explicit depictions of blood and violence especially in the latter part of the film.

Half brutal and bloody violence (hand gets hit with huge wrench, the main character is shown covered in blood, torture, stylised violence, gunfights and hand to hand combat)

Contains a lot more violent scenes than Oldboy, which has some similarities to A Bittersweet Life, but it's another kind of violence. ABL is a mafia action/thriller. Oldboy is not about the mafia at all.

R (Korea) violence type: blood, gore, brutal and graphic.

Several fatal shootings, often quite graphic with a good amount of blood and gore.

Lots of hand to hand combat.

A man is held down and get´s his fingers smashed by a very large wrench. There are a few closeups of his mangled and bloody hand.

Several times men are given severe beatings with various blunt objects.

A man is tied up, hung from the ceiling and beaten. His face is a bloody mess.

A man lies dead in a large pool of blood briefly. There is a brief head shot.

A comment is made on balls.

Pretty heavy swearing.

Multiple uses of 'fuck', 'shit', 'asshole', and 'bastard'. Not much else, although it may depend on the subtitles.

Smoking exposed, but nothing to be worry of.

Several people are shown drinking alcohol. A character is shown drunk.

Several people are violently murdered. Overall a pretty tense movie.

A couple of brief beatings. Other instances of violence might be intense.