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Is The Handmaiden worth watching?

Name: The Handmaiden
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Released: 2016

YES – Worth Watching

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IMDb 8.1

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PRIME IMDb 8.1 🍅 96%

The Handmaiden

2016 • 145 min • Drama, Romance, Thriller

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About The Handmaiden

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 steal her fortune.