The Handmaiden (2016) (DVD) (US Version)

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Three years after his English-language debut Stoker, award-winning filmmaker Park Chan Wook returns to Korean cinemas with the highly acclaimed erotic thriller The Handmaiden, which earned him his third Palme d Or nomination at the Cannes Film Festival following Old Boy & Thirst. Starring Kim Min Hee ( Right Now, Wrong Then) as a wealthy Japanese heiress, breakout newcomer Kim Tae Ri as a maid, Ha Jung Woo ( Assassination) as a fake count & Jo Jin Woong (A Hard Day) as the heiresss uncle, the film is an adaptation of Welsh author Sarah Waterss notable lesbian crime novel Fingersmith about the love between a rich heiress & her maid.

In 1930s Korea, Lady Hideko (Kim Min Hee), the sole heiress to her family fortune, lives with her uncle (Jo Jin Woong) in a luxurious mansion. In an attempt to seize the heiresss wealth, a swindler (Ha Jung Woo) poses as Count Fujiwara & hires pickpocket Sook Hee (Kim Tae Ri) to become her maid. Though Sook Hee is given the mission to convince Lady Hideko to marry Count Fujiwara, she finds herself sexually attracted to her new mistress.