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The Handmaiden (2016)
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Park Chan-wook transposes Fingersmith from Victorian England to Japanese-occupied Korea, where language and status sharpen the confidence scheme. The adaptation keeps Waters's pleasure in unstable viewpoints while making the settings, performances and erotic imagery distinctly its own. A revealing example of transformation preserving narrative energy, with substantial changes that invite comparison. Explicit sex, coercion and sexual exploitation make it firmly adult viewing.
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About The Handmaiden
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.