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Take Care of My Cat

2001 · 112 min

Quietly observant and tender, it drifts with young women through drifting friendships and hard economic edges, leaving a soft ache.

Directed by: Jeong Jae-eun
Genres: Drama
Starring: Bae Doona, Lee Yo-won, Ok Ji-young

Tagline: Cat-like twenty-year-old girls and their secret life
Overview: When one girl from five close school friends moves to Seoul after school is over, the other four try and deal with the loss of her moving and them drifting apart.

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Directed by: Jeong Jae-eun
Genres: Drama
Starring: Bae Doona, Lee Yo-won, Ok Ji-young

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
coming-of-age
class
isolation
identity
Places: big city
small town
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	3
Realism	9
Romance	1
Tension	3
Darkness	5
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Jeong Jae-eun
Written by: Park Ji-sung, Jeong Jae-eun
Starring: Bae Doona, Lee Yo-won, Ok Ji-young, Lee Eun-sil, Lee Eun-ju, Oh Tae-kyung, Kim Hwa-yeong, Park Seong-geun
Music: Cho Sung-woo, Park Ki-heon
Cinematography: Choi Young-hwan
Runtime: 112 min
Country: South Korea
Languages: Korean

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