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The Handmaiden

“You're the one being tricked.”

Director
Park Chan-wook
Year
2016
Runtime
2h 25m
Rated
R
Release
2016
Language
ko
Country
KR

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01 · Overview

What it’s about

The story

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.

  • #lesbian
  • #swindler
  • #noblewoman
  • #1930s
  • #pickpocket
  • #jealousy
  • #erotic thriller
  • #melodramatic
  • #based on novel or book
  • #mansion
  • #romantic
  • #seducer

  • Directed by

    Park Chan-wook

  • Written by

    Park Chan-wook & Chung Seo-kyung

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