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The Handmaiden

2016 · Thriller · Park Chan-wook · 2h 25m

A pickpocket takes work as maid to a Japanese heiress in 1930s Korea, planted there by a con man who wants the heiress's fortune. Told in parts that go back over the same days, and very adult.

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