Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted June 4, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 4, 2012 As a long time fan of both kung-fu movies and Korean cinema, 'Miss Please Be Patient' was definitely a curiosity for me. Starring the late great Kim Tai Chung I believe the movie was actually considered lost for a long time, and I'm ashamed to say that under that impression, I was expecting my viewing of it to be just that, curiosity, rather than expecting to gain any kind of enjoyment from it. Thankfully, I couldn't have been more wrong. The connection between this movie, dating back to 1981, and modern day Korean movies is clear to see. Tai Chung strolls through the movie with a confident swagger, breaking out some lightning fast moves which perhaps, probably due more to Korea's recent lack of martial arts output, I wasn't expecting, and he's happily aided by two beautiful ladies in the form of Jung Yun-hui & Seo Yeong-ran, who both look like they could have stepped out of a Korean movie that was made yesterday. What comes through most of all is perhaps the sense of fun that the movie carries. If you hear the combination of kung-fu, comedy, and 1981 in any other situation, what immediately springs to mind is the often wince inducing Canto comedy that plagued many a potentially great kung-fu flick, complete with gurning at the camera and alike. However I was surprised to find myself actually laughing along with much of the humour in 'Miss Please Be Patient', despite the low quality picture and sound, it's a movie which has aged well. I was amazed to be watching a Korean action movie which contained no element of revenge, but then in the final couple of minutes there's a revelation which quickly put rest to that theory....for anyone else who's seen it I'd be interested to know your thoughts, either from a kung-fu movie fan perspective or a Korean one! PgHeH3Vxj-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted June 4, 2012 Member Share Posted June 4, 2012 Well, here's another movie that if I ever get some cash, I'll have to track down. I must say, the water pressure in Korea back then was amazing! That's the quickest I've ever seen a bathtub fill up in my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted June 4, 2012 Author Moderator Share Posted June 4, 2012 Ha ha....that's the first time I noticed! The part that always gets me is he goes to his hotel room then just leaves the front door wide open, I guess Korean hotels back then where known for their high levels of safety and even higher water pressure! Definitely worth a watch, and it's readily available these days thanks to some guys on this very site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted June 4, 2012 Member Share Posted June 4, 2012 Maybe he reasoning was: "I'll just leave the door open and hope someone comes in for me to beat up before I get in the bath. I'd hate to take my bath first, and then beat someone up, and get all sweaty again.":tongue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member silver hermit Posted June 4, 2012 Member Share Posted June 4, 2012 As a long time fan of both kung-fu movies and Korean cinema, 'Miss Please Be Patient' was definitely a curiosity for me. Starring the late great Kim Tai Chung I believe the movie was actually considered lost for a long time, and I'm ashamed to say that under that impression, I was expecting my viewing of it to be just that, curiosity, rather than expecting to gain any kind of enjoyment from it. Thankfully, I couldn't have been more wrong. The connection between this movie, dating back to 1981, and modern day Korean movies is clear to see. Tai Chung strolls through the movie with a confident swagger, breaking out some lightning fast moves which perhaps, probably due more to Korea's recent lack of martial arts output, I wasn't expecting, and he's happily aided by two beautiful ladies in the form of Jung Yun-hui & Seo Yeong-ran, who both look like they could have stepped out of a Korean movie that was made yesterday. What comes through most of all is perhaps the sense of fun that the movie carries. If you hear the combination of kung-fu, comedy, and 1981 in any other situation, what immediately springs to mind is the often wince inducing Canto comedy that plagued many a potentially great kung-fu flick, complete with gurning at the camera and alike. However I was surprised to find myself actually laughing along with much of the humour in 'Miss Please Be Patient', despite the low quality picture and sound, it's a movie which has aged well. I was amazed to be watching a Korean action movie which contained no element of revenge, but then in the final couple of minutes there's a revelation which quickly put rest to that theory....for anyone else who's seen it I'd be interested to know your thoughts, either from a kung-fu movie fan perspective or a Korean one! PgHeH3Vxj-4 i couldn't have said it better, this film is one of the most fun films i have ever watched. the comedy is genuinely funny and not slap stick or buffoonery. the action was the biggest surprise of the films very high level. it was a pleasure to discover and share with all other fans out there. in my 30 years watching asian action films this film was very refreshing and its not very often in a genre that offers many cookie cutter copycat films this film offers a very rare quality of being origonal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member 66 Mantis Posted June 4, 2012 Member Share Posted June 4, 2012 http://farreachingfilms.blogspot.com/search?q=miss+please+be+patient I enjoyed it, too. Fun flick; good fighting and a couple of genuine laughs. I blogged about it just a week or two before Kim Tai Chung passed away so that was a bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted June 5, 2012 Author Moderator Share Posted June 5, 2012 I enjoyed it, too. Fun flick; good fighting and a couple of genuine laughs. I blogged about it just a week or two before Kim Tai Chung passed away so that was a bummer. Yeah, it was a sad loss. The movie was also blogged about during this years Korean Cinema Blogathon over at Planet Choco Zine - http://www.planetchocko.com/?p=8008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted November 17, 2012 Author Moderator Share Posted November 17, 2012 I arranged for this movie to have it's premiere here in Australia a couple of weeks ago, so posted an extended review of it here - http://koreanfilmfestivalinaustralia.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/action-month-review-8th-nov-miss-please.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator KUNG FU BOB Posted November 17, 2012 Administrator Share Posted November 17, 2012 Nice review man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted November 17, 2012 Member Share Posted November 17, 2012 Ditto, dude. I'm definitely gonna track this down someday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member 66 Mantis Posted November 17, 2012 Member Share Posted November 17, 2012 I arranged for this movie to have it's premiere here in Australia a couple of weeks ago, so posted an extended review of it here - http://koreanfilmfestivalinaustralia.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/action-month-review-8th-nov-miss-please.html Great work and great review! Nice to see the movie get a big screen showing, complete with introduction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Killer Meteor Posted November 18, 2012 Member Share Posted November 18, 2012 I still can't believe anyone saw Bruce Lee in Kim Tai-chung - he's a Jackie lookalike but not a Bruce one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted November 18, 2012 Author Moderator Share Posted November 18, 2012 I still can't believe anyone saw Bruce Lee in Kim Tai-chung - he's a Jackie lookalike but not a Bruce one! Ha ha, I see what you mean. Although I'd prefer to say he's not a Bruce Lee lookalike or a Jackie Chan lookalike, he's Kim Tai-jung, & that's enough. Getting cast as Bruce Lee though, I think it was perhaps a case of right place at the right time...somehow I don't think he'd have got his chance to shine if he'd entered the kung-fu movie world as Jackie Chan's stand-in for 'Fearless Hyena 2'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Killer Meteor Posted April 16, 2018 Member Share Posted April 16, 2018 Did Kim do any TV series at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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