A scene from the movie Dancing Cat, which features cats in leading, supporting and extra roles / Courtesy of Indie Story
Film, cafe seek to break biases
By Kwon Mee-yoo
A 27-year-old woman who quit her job to open a cafe, a poet who travelled for 15 years and a television commercial director &8212; there seems tbuy catso be no intersection among the three peoples lives, but affection toward stray cats created a bond. And they have set out to break prejudice against cats on the street.
Lee Yong-han, the poet who published photo essays on stray cats including Bye Kitty, and Thank You and Be Bright Cats collaborated with commercial film director Yun Ki-hyoung in the new movie Dancing Cat, while Lee Jung-hee, 27, is busy adding finishing touches to her new cafe Dreaming of Stray Cats near Jonggak Station on subway line No. 1, which will open later this month.
Lee Yong-hans Bye Kitty, and Thank You, published in 2009, made many people think again about cats on the street and Yun was one of them. As described in the movie, Yun came across the book in a library and started to think about making a documentary based on Lees book.
Thoughts on the book and cats kept recurring to me and I contacted Lee through the publisher. When I told Lee about the movie, he gave permission willingly, Yun said in an interview with The Korea Times last week.
Lee said it was the first offer to make a movie based on his book. I received many thank-you letters from
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