Lucid NonsenseMovies / 2016
The Handmaiden
아가씨
Completed
Seen in a theater
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.
- Release year
- 2016
- Released
- Jun 1, 2016
- Country
- South Korea
- Genres
- Thriller · Drama · Romance
- Tags
- afisilver
- Directed by
- Park Chan-wook
- Written by
- Park Chan-wook · Jeong Seo-kyeong
- Other credits
- Sarah Waters (original creator)
- Cast
- Kim Min-hee (Lady Hideko) · Kim Tae-ri (Sook-hee) · Ha Jung-woo (Count Fujiwara) · Cho Jin-woong (Uncle Kouzuki) · Kim Hae-sook (Ms. Sasaki) · Moon So-ri (Hideko's Aunt) · Lee Yong-nyeo (Bok-soon) · Kwak Eun-jin (Kkeut-dan) · Lee Dong-hwi (Goo-gai) · Jo Eun-hyung (Young Hideko)
Review
I can't believe Korea blacklisted Kim Min-hee for bell-play, we've all done it.
Consumption history1
Completed
Theater viewing
External identifiers
- tmdb
- 290098
- letterboxd
- 948A