Miss, Please Be Patient
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Duration | Director Lee Hyung Pyo Language Korean | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 19, 1981 (1981-09-19) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Miss please be patient
Miss, Please Be Patient is a 1981 South Korean romantic comedy action film starring Kim Tai-chung and Jeong Yun-hui. The movie is also known as Super Lady Hopper as an alternate title. The movie is apparently Kim Tai-chung's rarest movie appearance in South Korea. It was directed by Lee Hyung Pyo and released domestically in 1981, but the international release was cancelled.
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Background
The movie was only screened in South Korea in 1981 and after that the movie was considered to be lost except for a few VHS copies. The movie was not revealed to an international audience until 2011, when the movie was rediscovered by Houndslow Team, a group of martial arts fans who are tracking down rare kung fu action movies and releasing them on DVD.
Plot
Mr. Jun, the head of a Taiwanese shipbuilding company, was murdered by Pang, who is vice-president of the company. Pang decided to take over the company, but his plan did not progress smoothly because Jun's daughter Li-Hwa (Jeong Yun-hui) inherits his fortune.
Meanwhile, Li-Hwa spends her day playing tennis and learning kung fu from her friend Hyun-Hee (Seo Yeong-ran) who is a Taekwondo master. However Li-Hwa's skill in Taekwondo gave her a hard task since Pang and his gang were attempt to kidnap her. Even worse, Pang hires Hong Kong triads so that they can force Li-Hwa to sign the inherited contract.
When Li-Hwa is kidnapped, Hyun-Hee decided to rescue her and get help from the mysterious man Kim Min-wuk (Kim Tai-chung) who had fallen in love to Li-Hwa. Hyun-Hee and Min-wuk rescue Li-Hwa safely at the end.
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Media release
Kim Tai-chung stated that he was planned to release the movie on DVD, but before he could release it, he died by stomach hemorrhage. The movie was released only few copy of VHS tapes in 1981. In 2011, Houndslow Team released the movie on DVD in a fully remastered version with English subtitles.