The Handmaiden
Director: Park CHAN-WOOK
Festival: 2025 Utopia Festival
Country: South Korea
Year: 2016
Cast: Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo and Cho Jin-woong
Rights:
Language: Korean, Japanese
Length: 150 minutes
Subtitles: English, Hebrew
Thriller
Mythology
Summary:
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 elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions.