Product Details

• Actors: Doona Bae, Yu-won Lee, Ji-young Ok, Eung-sil Lee, Eung-ju Lee
• Directors: Jae-eun Jeong
• Writers: Jae-eun Jeong
• Producers: Jae-Won Choi, Ki-min Oh, Seoung-Jae Cha
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Korean
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Kino International
• DVD Release Date: July 6, 2004
• Run Time: 112 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00029NMCM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,650 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Take Care of My Cat" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, bittersweet, August 7, 2004

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Susan Fong (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Take Care of My Cat (DVD)

I happened to stumble upon "Take Care of My Cat" while searching for movies about cats. This title sounded intriguing so I decided to buy the DVD. I am very happy that I did!

An adorable stray kitten named Tee-Tee is the cat referred to in the title. Tee-Tee serves as a common thread that weaves through the lives of five spirited, attractive young Korean women, former classmates, who remain friends through young adulthood.

Tae-Hee is the sensitive, understanding anchor of this group of friends. She still lives with her parents even though she can barely tolerate her chauvinistic father. Ji-Young is a budding textile artist who resides with her elderly, impoverished grandparents since her own parents died. Hae-Joo is an endearingly self-centered, ambitious office worker who wants to climb the corporate ladder. Unfortunately, she lacks the college degree that will enable her to do so. As such, she is relinquished to the position of a glorified runner. Bi-Ryu and Ohn-Jo are good-natured twin sisters who look so much alike that even their closest friends mistake one for the other.

"Take Care of My Cat" is the kind of movie that Hollywood is no longer willing or able to produce. It is an unhurried, delicately observed slice of life about ordinary people living each day as best they can. It's about the momentary joys and sudden catastrophes life can deliver and the way in which our friendships fortify us.

"Take Care of My Cat" tells its story with grace, honesty, and good doses of humor and wisdom. It's a lovely, bittersweet movie that deserves a large audience.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worthy coming-of-age film from South Korea., September 13, 2004

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S. Calhoun "rhymeswithorange" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Take Care of My Cat (DVD)

TAKE CARE OF MY CAT is a subtle, quiet coming-of-age tale set in urban South Korea; I've seen it twice and have enjoyed both times. After graduating secondary school each of these five friends embark on their own journey to get a job and establish themselves in young adulthood; unfortunately some are more successful than others. As time progresses a few of them are determined to remain in touch but become disillusioned when their friendships become strained. Armed with cellular phones and rapid text-messaging skills they frequently keep track of each other.

What I enjoyed most about this film was its ability to adequately display how the bonds of friendship during childhood are often tested after monumental events such as graduation. I found this depiction of the transition of adolescence into adulthood to be both realistic and honest. There are many quiet scenes of the girls walking along the industrial landscape of the port city of Inchon, South Korea that I found interesting and intriguing. To sum it up, TAKE CARE OF MY CAT is a film worth watching. Recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The sorrows and joys of coming of age, rarely better portrayed, February 3, 2010

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Muzzlehatch (the walls of Gormenghast) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Take Care of My Cat (DVD)

Five schoolgirls, identical outfits and identical jet black hair, posing for each other's pictures, swearing eternal friendship...a few years later, and the bonds are not so tight as class and social difference threaten feelings, family structures, even livelihoods. Jae-eun Jeong's first feature is one of the most remarkable debuts I've ever seen, a seemingly low-key yet cinematically brilliant and powerfully energetic slice of life story that communicates the dramas at the edge of adulthood, the struggles to succeed in the hustle of the big city or at the margins of society.

At the beginning of the film, the girls are still fairly tight, despite one of them -- proud capitalist-to-be Hye-ju moving to Seoul early in the film, while the rest live in the semi-suburban Incheon, some distance to the west of the capital. They are in constant cell-phone contact, by voice and texting, and this allows the director lots of fun with the visual trope of lettering appearing in various places on the screen when a character is texting another...at first this seemed merely playful to me, but it's clear that she has an agenda involving communication breakdown, despite the instantaneous nature of modern technology; the central character of Tae-hie, direction-less herself but working harder than any of the others to keep them from drifting, actually uses an old-fashioned typewriter while transcribing writing for a man with cerebral palsy -- an indication, perhaps, that she is more aware of both the past and the pitfalls of today. The third major character, Ji-young, lives in poverty and loneliness with her aging grandparents, and it is largely her growing isolation from Hye-ju, her former best friend, that sets what plot there is here in motion. The last two girls are twins Bi-ryu and Ohn-jo and are a bit less well-developed, but not surprisingly so as their devotion to each other helps keep them from needing the others as much.

The film is full of charm and wit, and a growing sense of pathos as the world of adulthood really comes crashing in on a couple of the characters, and the director and her brilliant cinematographer Yeong-hwan Choi make stunning use of windows, mirrors, glasses and the urban landscapes of both the big modern city center and its grimy decaying outreaches to depict the fragmented personalities and souls of a group of girls bouncing back and forth between liberation and servitude -- often self-imposed -- and never really quite aware of what it's all for. The low key, electronically-based score is wistful and romantic, beautiful and perfectly complimentary without ever really dominating the mood.

I first watched the excellently transferred Kino DVD in the fall of 2007 and was so powerfully moved - and entertained - that I watched it again the next night, something that I virtually never do; and then I purchased it and have watched it a couple more times since. Easily one of my favorite films of the decade, and a film that surely would get more critical acclaim were it about American boys instead of Korean girls. The DVD doesn't have much in the way of extras, and there are Asian editions that are supposedly a bit better, but this disc is probably your best bet if you're in North America. It's not cheap, but believe me it's worth it.