The Handmaiden

Category: Movies •

Genre: Thriller • Drama • Romance •

Rating: 8.2

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Cast: Kim Min-hee, 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, Eun-yeong Kim, Jeong Ha-dam, Yoo Min-chae, Won Geun-hee, Kim Jong-dae, Jang Han-sun, Kim Lee-woo, Shinsuke Fujimoto, Katsuhiro Nagano, Lee Ji-ha, Tomomitsu Adachi, Takashi Kakizawa, Seo-Yoon Hwang, Shin-hye Park, Lee Ji-hye, So-Yeon Heo, Lee Yoon-jae, Choi Jong-ryul, Kim Joon-woo, Bae Il-hyuck, Kim Soo-woong, Yong-Hyun Jo, Park Ki-ryung, Choi Byung-mo, Han Chang-hyun, Kim In-woo, Kwon Hyuk, Hyung-tae Im, Oh Man-seok, Kim Byung Gi, In-su Kim, Alexander Scarborough, Jin-Chul Kim, Do-Hyung Kim, Eun-ji Hong, Song Da-eun, Jeong In-kyeom, Nam Gyeong-min, Ahn Seong-bong, Seon Uk-hyeon, Lee In-chul,

Language: ko

Country: US

Release Date: June 1, 2016

Plot: 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.