Take Care of My Cat
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| Hangul | 고양이를 부탁해 |
| Revised Romanization | Goyangireul Butakhae |
| McCune–Reischauer | Koyangirŭl Put‘akhae |
| Directed by | Jeong Jae-eun |
| Produced by | Oh Ki-min |
| Written by | Jeong Jae-eun |
| Starring |
Bae Doona Lee Yo-won Ok Ji-young |
| Music by | Park Gi-hyeon Kim Jun-seok Jo Seong-woo Kim Sang-hyeon |
| Cinematography | Choi Young-hwan |
| Edited by | Lee Hyun-mi |
| Distributed by | Cinema Service |
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112 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$9,866 |
Take Care of My Cat (Hangul: 고양이를 부탁해; RR: Goyangireul Butakhae) is a 2001 South Korean coming of age film, the feature debut of director Jeong Jae-eun. It chronicles the lives of a group of friends — five young women — a year after they graduate from high school, showing the heartbreaking changes and inspiring difficulties they face in both their friendships and the working world.
In the dingy port town of Incheon, five friends attempt to make the difficult transition from high school to the adult world: Hae-joo, who is pursuing a career at a brokerage firm in Seoul; Tae-hee, who works at her family's sauna for free and volunteers as a typist for a poet suffering from cerebral palsy; Ji-young, a young artist who wanders between low-paying jobs while caring for her elderly grandparents; and twins Bi-ryu and Ohn-jo, who make their living selling handmade jewellery on the street.
Hae-joo immediately makes efforts to move up in the workplace, but finds that she is unable to progress much further without a university degree. Her friendship with Ji-young begins to deteriorate after she makes an insensitive comment about Ji-young's desire to study textile design and later returns a stray kitten given to her as a birthday present, reasoning that she has no time to look after it. Tae-hee tries to keep close ties with both of them, but Hae-joo's preoccupation with work and Ji-young's stubbornness causes a rift to form between the two. Tae-hee and Ji-young grow closer as a result, bonding over a shared dream of travelling overseas.
After the group sleeps over at the twins' house, Ji-young sneaks away at dawn to find that the roof of her house has collapsed, killing her grandparents. Refusing to co-operate with the police, Ji-young is taken to juvenile detention. Tae-hee visits her at the detention centre, where Ji-young reveals that she is reluctant to leave; with no home and no family she feels she has nowhere else to go. Tae-hee reassures her that whatever happens, they will always be friends.
Eventually, Ji-young is released from the detention centre to find Tae-hee waiting for her. Tae-hee reveals that she has run away from home, taking the money she is owed from working for her family and suggests that they travel together. The film ends with Tae-hee and Ji-young at the airport, leaving Incheon.
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