A Bittersweet Life 2005 AKA Dalkomhan insaeng Directors Cut 2160p UHD Blu-ray Remux DV HDR HEVC DTS-HD MA 5 1-CiNEPHiLES

Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn't proceed by his boss's orders.

Year: 2005
Duration: 120 min
Release date: Friday 1st April 2005
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

    

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Stars:
Jeong-min Hwang, Yu-mi Jeong, Ku Jin, Hae-gon Kim

General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1h 59mn
Size: 80.1 GiB

Video
Codec: h265 (HDR 10-bit)
HDR format : Dolby Vision, Version 1.0, dvhe.07.06, BL+EL+RPU, Blu-ray compatible / SMPTE ST 2086, HDR10 compatible
Resolution: 3840x2160
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 91.6 Mb/s

Audio
#1: Korean 5.1ch DTS XLL @ 2 437 kb/s
#2: English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by Korean Cinema historian Pierce Conran and critic James Marsh)
#3: Korean 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by director Kim Jee-woon and cast members Kim Young-chul and Lee Byung-hun)
#4: Korean 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by director Kim Jee-woon, director of photography Kim Ji-y and set designer Yoo Seong-hee)
#5: Korean 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Select-scene commentary by director Kim Jee-woon and film academic Areum Jeong)
#6: Korean 2.0ch AC-3 @ 640 kb/s (Commentary by director Kim Jee-woon and film critic Lee Dong-jin)

Subs: English, French, Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Malay

Source #1: Second Sight GBR UHD Blu-ray (2024) - thanks KAKAROT!
Source #2: Content Zone KOR Blu-ray (2011) - thanks scarboy!
Source #3: Splendid Film GER Blu-ray (2021) - thanks CSOLHD!
Source #4: Pony Canyon JPN Blu-ray (2010) - thanks jj666!
Source #5: The Jokers FRA UHD Blu-ray (2024) - thanks Psaro!
Source #6: Netflix / Disney+ WEB-DL

- Video, audio, commentaries no. 1-4, English subtitles, chapters from source #1.
- Commentary no. 5 from source #2.
- Extra subtitles from sources #2-6.

Included three sets of English subtitles, one from Second Sight, one from Netflix, and one from Content Zone. They are all from the same base translation, with Second Sight using British spellings, and the latter two American ones. All of them are slightly differently edited. Second Sight set to default. Adjusted positioning of Second Sight OCR and Content Zone PGS subtitles, to avoid overlapping with hardcoded Korean subtitles in one scene (about a minute long, present in all sources).

Second Sight has a superior encode, with some extra detail, and more image in the frame. As stated in release notes, Second Sight performed additional restoration and made their own Dolby Vision grade, which appears to be quite different from the French disc.

Audio-wise GBR and FRA are almost the same, but GBR is 18-bit rather than 16-bit FRA and was preferred.