2016 2h 25m Park Chan-wook

The Handmaiden

Name: The Handmaiden
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Romance
Released: 2016
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong

★ 8.1 IMDb

Mystery & Thriller Drama Romance

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.

Writers Park Chan-wook, Jeong Seo-kyeong

Cast Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong

DP Chung Chung-Hoon

Production Designer Ryu Seong-hui

Music Jo Yeong-wook

Essays and Criticism

On this film

The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) by Angelo Muredda, Cinema Scope Movie Poster of the Week: Park Chan-wook's 'The Handmaiden' and an Interview with Designer John Calvert by Rob Cheetham, MUBI Notebook

On Park Chan-wook

Combining the Past and the Future: A Conversation with Park Chan-wook by Hans Ulrich Obrist, MUBI Notebook Park Chan-wook: ‘We certainly do have other choices’ by Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies

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