2011 · comedy · romance · anime
You Are My Pet
Directed by Kim Byung-gon1h 50m2011
A woman finds a man in a box in front of her home and takes him in. She jokingly says she wants to keep him as her pet since the man reminds her of her childhood dog. The man agrees. Later the woman discovers that the man is a dance prodigy. Complications arise when her old flame from college returns.
Our read: You Are My Pet (2011) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · romance · anime entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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