The Handmaiden (Ah-ga-ssi)

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Directed by

Chan-wook Park

Starring (View all)

Tae Ri Kim
Sook-Hee

Yong-nyeo Lee
Bok-soon

Min-chae Yoo
Ggeut-dan

Dong-Hwi Lee
Goo-gai

Hae-suk Kim
Miss Sasaki

Min-hie Kim
Lady Hideko

Jung-woo Ha
Count Fujiwara

Kyu-jung Lee
Maid 1

Written by (View all)

Sarah Waters
inspired by the novel Fingersmith by

Chan-wook Park
screenplay

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6 years, 7 months ago at May 13 23:21

Dark Shadows

3 votes

I really enjoyed this movie (watched it together with my wife, she even rated it 9/10) I think the cinematography/visuals in this movie are incredible and the actors were amazing too, I really fell in love with Min-hie Kim (Lady Hideko) what a perfect doll like face she has-wow!:)

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6 years, 7 months ago at Apr 23 16:22

Lexi

1 vote

"You can even curse at me or steal things from me. But please don't lie to me. Understand?"Set in 1930s Korea, 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 larg... read more

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6 years, 6 months ago at Jun 12 15:07

fernando

1 vote

Extreme formalism but has some moemntos and images and parts that trascend it. The sexy pervertion of the characters, leading to the happy somber mutilation, while the lesbian girls are happy, is ok.

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An heiress falls in love with a petty thief. A modernized Korean version of Sarah Waters's novel, Fingersmith.

Release date: 1 June 2016

Tags: Drama (5), Korea (3), Romance (3), South Korea (3), Thriller (2), Asian (2), Korean (2), Lesbian (2), 2010s (2), Torture (1), Remake (1), Love (1), Jealousy (1), Period (1), Escape (1), Japanese (1), Wine (1), Foreign Language (1), Black Comedy (1)

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"Original Title: 'Ah-ga-ssi' Country: South Korea Directed by: Chan-wook Park Plot: A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her. Note: It looked really gorgeous and, in this area, it is probably the best movie that Chan-wook Park has delivered so far. On the other hand, I have to admit that I didn’t know anything about the plot when I started to watch the damned thing and, to be honest, I did struggle at the beginning to comp"

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