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The Handmaiden (2016)

R06/01/2016Thriller, Drama, Romance2h 25m
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Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Kim Min-hee

    Lady Hideko

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    Kim Tae-ri

    Sook-hee

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    Ha Jung-woo

    Count Fujiwara

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    Cho Jin-woong

    Uncle Kouzuki

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    Kim Hae-sook

    Ms. Sasaki

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    Moon So-ri

    Hideko's Aunt

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    Lee Yong-nyeo

    Bok-soon

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    Kwak Eun-jin

    Kkeut-dan

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    Lee Dong-hwi

    Goo-gai

Talk about the best laid plans! This is a cracking, sexy, thriller set in Korea during the Japanese occupation of the 1930s. It centres around the charming, butter-wouldn't-melt "Sook-Hee" (Tae Ri Kim) who takes a job attending the wealthy "Lady Hideko" (Kim Min-hee). She lives on a grand estate with her cantankerous uncle "Kouzuki" (Cho Jin-woong) and is frankly rather low maintenance for her new maid. Pretty quickly, though, we begin to smell a rat! Is she what she seems, and what has the obviously duplicitous "Count" (Ha Jung-woo) got to do with things? Well gradually, we find out that ther...