The Handmaiden
You're the one being tricked.
Film20162h 25mReleased
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- Director
- Park Chan-wook
- Language
- Korean
- Released
- 2016-06-01
- Runtime
- 2h 25m
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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.
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