The Handmaiden 2016

8.2

South Korea

Thriller Drama Romance Adult Korean

145 min

2016

Kim Min-hee Lee Ji-ha Tomomitsu Adachi Lee Ji-hye Lee Yoon-jae Choi Jong-ryul Kim Soo-woong Park Ki-ryung Choi Byung-mo Han Chang-hyun Kim In-woo Kwon Hyuk Oh Man-seok Song Da-eun Jeong In-kyeom Ahn Seong-bong Kim Lee-woo Won Geun-hee Yoo Min-chae Kim Tae-ri Ha Jung-woo Cho Jin-woong Kim Hae-sook Moon So-ri Lee Yong-nyeo Kwak Eun-jin Lee Dong-hwi Jo Eun-hyung Rina Takagi Han Ha-na Lee Kyu-jung Kim See-eun Ha Si-yeon Jeong Ha-dam Seon Uk-hyeon

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, 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.