The Handmaiden

The Handmaiden (Hangul: 아가씨; RR: Agassi; lit. "Lady") is a 2016 South Korean
The Handmaiden
erotic psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Kim Min-
hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo and Cho Jin-woong.[5] It is inspired from the novel
Fingersmith by Welsh writer Sarah Waters, with the setting changed from Victorian
era Britain to Korea under Japanese colonial rule.[6][7]

The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film
Festival.[8][9][10][11][12] It was released in South Korea on 1 June 2016, to critical
acclaim.[13][14] It grossed over $37 million worldwide.[4]

At the 71st British Academy Film Awards, the film won the category of Best Film
Not in the English Language.[15]

Contents
Plot
Part 1
Theatrical release poster
Part 2
Part 3 Hangul 아가씨
Cast Revised Agassi
Production Romanization
Release Directed by Park Chan-
Reception wook
Critical response
Produced by Park Chan-
Response to the explicit scenes
Top ten lists wook

Accolades Syd Lim

See also Screenplay by Park Chan-
References wook
External links Chung Seo-
kyung
Based on Fingersmith
Plot by Sarah
Waters
Starring Kim Min-hee
Part 1
Kim Tae-ri
In Japanese-occupied Korea, a conman operating under the sobriquet of "Count
Fujiwara" plans to seduce a Japanese heiress named Lady Hideko, then marry her Ha Jung-woo
and commit her to an asylum in order to steal her inheritance. He hires a pickpocket Cho Jin-woong
named Sook-hee from a family of con artists to become Hideko's maid and
Music by Jo Yeong-wook
encourage Hideko to marry him.
Cinematography Chung Chung-
hoon
Edited by
Hideko lives with her authoritarian Uncle Kouzuki. Kouzuki makes money by Kim Jae-bum
selling rare books, and he has Hideko give readings of the books for potential Kim Sang-bum
buyers. Sook-hee and Hideko grow closer, and Hideko allows Sook-hee to wear her
Production Moho Film
dresses and jewelry. When Hideko asks Sook-hee what married life will be like, companies
Sook-hee makes passionate love to her, promising her the same pleasures with her Yong Film
new husband. Sook-hee begins expressing reluctance about the plan, but when Distributed by CJ
Hideko herself feels that she cannot go through with the marriage, Sook-hee insists Entertainment
she do so, causing Hideko to slap her and run away in frustration.
Release date 14 May 2016
When Kouzuki leaves on business for a week, Hideko and Fujiwara elope. After (Cannes)
cashing out Hideko's inheritance, it is then revealed that Hideko and Fujiwara double 1 June 2016
crossed Sook-hee and has convinced the asylum that she is the "Countess," and have (South Korea)
her committed in Hideko's stead.
Running time 145 minutes[1]
168 minutes[2]
Part 2
(Director's cut)
A series of flashbacks show that Kouzuki was abusive to both Hideko and her aunt.
The books he sells are sadistic pornography, which he trains and forces his wife to Country South Korea
read at private auctions for the books, a practice that he also teaches Hideko during Language Korean
childhood. Hideko's aunt is eventually found hanged from a tree in the yard. When Japanese
Hideko suspects the death was not suicide, Kouzuki takes Hideko into his basement,
Budget ₩10 billion
where he tells her that he murdered her aunt after she had attempted to run away
.
(approx. $8.8
In the more recent past, Hideko has grown up, and Fujiwara plans to seduce her to million)[3]
steal her inheritance. He finds this impossible due to Hideko being desensitized to Box office $37.7 million[4]
sex acts and can not be seduced, and he instead makes a deal with her: if they get
married, he'll save her from her uncle in exchange for half her inheritance. Hideko agrees under the condition that when they marry,
he gives her a vial of poison guaranteed to kill her quickly in the event she is caught by her uncle and taken back to the basement.
Hideko further proposes to hire a maid and commit the maid to an asylum in her place.

All the while being instructed by Fujiwara, who takes advantage of Sook-hee's illiteracy, Hideko unexpectedly falls in love with her.
Knowing that the woman she loved was planning on betraying her, even with her feelings and their love making, Hideko tries to hang
herself. Sook-hee saves her, and confesses her culpability in trying to commit Hideko and steal her inheritance. Hideko admits her
plan to commit Sook-hee in her place, and the two vow to get revenge on both Kouzuki and Fujiwara. Hideko shows Sook-hee her
uncle's collection of pornography, and Sook-hee destroys the collection in anger. Hideko eventually joins her, calling Sook-hee "her
savior" from her uncle's abuse.

Part 3
Sook-hee's friend Bok-soon sets a fire at the asylum and poses as a firefighter to help rescue Sook-hee. Meanwhile, Hideko poisons
Fujiwara's wine, causing him to pass out while she takes the money and leaves. Sook-hee and Hideko reunite and flee together,
disguising Hideko as a man to avoid detection.

Kouzuki captures Fujiwara upon receiving a letter from Hideko detailing Fujiwara's deception. He tortures Fujiwara in his cellar with
his collection of antique bookmaking tools and presses him for sexual details about his niece. Fujiwara makes up a story about their
wedding night, but a flashback shows that Hideko had cut her hand on a knife to stain her sheets, refusing to consummate the
marriage. When Kouzuki presses for more details, Fujiwara convinces Kouzuki to give him one of his cigarettes. After smoking for a
while, a disgusted Fujiwara refuses to give any further details. Kouzuki notices the cigarettes are producing blue smoke. Fujiwara
reveals that his cigarettes had been laced with mercury
, and the toxic gas within the smoke was now killing them both.

On a ferry to Shanghai, China, Sook-hee and Hideko celebrate their newfound freedom by making love once again.
Cast
Kim Min-hee as Lady Hideko
Kim Tae-ri as Sook-hee
Ha Jung-woo as Count Fujiwara
Cho Jin-woong as Uncle Kouzuki
Kim Hae-sook as Butler Madame Sasaki
Moon So-ri as Hideko's aunt
Lee Yong-nyeo as Bok-soon
Lee Dong-hwi as Goo-gai
Jo Eun-hyung as young Hideko
Rina Takagi as Hideko's mother
Han Ha-na as Junko
Jeong Ha-dam as Housemaid
Choi Byung-mo as Audience member

Production
[16][17]
The film began production in mid 2015 and finished on 31 October 2015.

Release
The Handmaiden premiered in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where Ryu Seong-hee won the Vulcan Award of the
Technical Artist for her art direction work on the film.[18][19] The film was also screened in the Special Presentations section of the
2016 Toronto International Film Festival, where The Playlist named it as one of the 15 best films of the festival.[20] In South Korea,
[21][22]
the film was released on 1 June 2016 and sold more than 4 million tickets.

In the United States, the distribution of the film was handled by Amazon Studios and Magnolia Pictures. The film opened in limited
release across five cinemas in New York City and Los Angeles,[23][24] and played in 140 additional cinemas in the following
weeks.[25] Eventually, the film grossed $2 million in the United States theatrically;[26] the film outgrossed Stoker and became the
highest-grossing Park Chan-wook-directed film in the United States.[27] It was released on DVD in the US on 24 January 2017 and
Blu-ray on March 28, 2017.[28][29]

In the United Kingdom, the distribution of the film was handled by Amazon Studios and Curzon Artificial Eye. The film grossed
more than $1.8 million in the United Kingdom theatrically [30]
, and became the highest-grossing foreign-language film in UK in 2017.

Reception

Critical response
The Handmaiden has received critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 95%, based on 180 reviews, with an
average rating of 8.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Handmaiden uses a Victorian crime novel as the loose inspiration
for another visually sumptuous and absorbingly idiosyncratic outing from director Park Chan-wook."[13] On Metacritic, the film
holds a score of 84 out of 100, based on 40 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[14] The Economist described the film as a
masterpiece.[31]

Response to the explicit scenes

The film's numerous sexually explicit scenes between the two main female characters sparked some controversy. Laura Miller at
Slate described the scenes as "disappointingly boilerplate" and featuring "visual clichés of pornographic lesbianism, [the actresses']
bodies offered up for the camera’s delectation."[32] However, The New Yorker's Jia Tolentino said that "the women know what they
look like, it seems—they are consciously performing for each other—and Park is deft at extracting the particular sense of silly
[33]
freedom that can be found in enacting a sexual cliché."

Top ten lists

The Handmaiden was listed on numerous critics' top ten lists.[34]

1st – Danny Bowes, RogerEbert.com

2nd – Dan Callahan, RogerEbert.com
2nd – Noel Murray & Katie Rife,The A.V. Club
2nd – Rob Hunter, Film School Rejects
2nd – Sean Mulvihill, RogerEbert.com
2nd – Tasha Robinson, The Verge
2nd – William Bibbiani,CraveOnline
3rd – Amy Nicholson, MTV
3rd – Witney Seibold, CraveOnline
3rd – Jen Yamato, The Daily Beast
3rd – James Berardinelli, Reelviews
3rd – Bilge Ebiri, L.A. Weekly
4th – Kimberley Jones,The Austin Chronicle
4th – Scott Tobias, Village Voice[35]
5th – Lean Pickett, Chicago Reader
5th – Kate Taylor, The Globe and Mail
5th – Josh Kupecki, The Austin Chronicle
5th – Haleigh Foutch, Collider.com
5th – Erin Whitney, ScreenCrush
5th – Peter Freeman, DC Outlook[36]
6th – Sean Axmaker, Parallax View
6th – John Powers, Vogue
6th – Alonso Duralde, TheWrap
6th – Christy Lemire and Peter Sobczynski,RogerEbert.com
6th – Mike D’Angelo & A.A. Dowd,The A.V. Club
7th – Bill Goodykoontz,The Arizona Republic
7th – Matt Zoller Seitz & Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
7th – Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
7th – Steve Davis, The Austin Chronicle
8th – Matt Singer, ScreenCrush
8th – Ty Burr, The Boston Globe
8th – Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter
8th – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
8th – David Edelstein, New York Magazine
9th – The Guardian
10th – Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle
10th – Dennis Dermody, Paper
Top 10 (listed alphabetically, not ranked) – Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle

Accolades
 List of awards and nominations
Year Award Category Recipient(s) Result
2016 Alliance of Women Film Best Non-English-
Park Chan-wook Won
Journalists[37][38] Language Film

Best Film The Handmaiden 4th Place

Best Director Park Chan-wook Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Kim Min-hee Nominated
Austin Film Critics
Park Chan-wook and
Association[39][40] Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated
Chung Seo-kyung
Best Cinematography Chung Chung-hoon Nominated
Best Foreign Language
The Handmaiden Won
Film
Best Film The Handmaiden Nominated
Best Director Park Chan-wook Nominated
Best Actress Kim Min-hee Won
Best New Actress Kim Tae-ri Won
Blue Dragon Film Awards Best Cinematography Chung Chung-hoon Nominated
Best Art Direction Ryu Seong-hee Won
Best Music Jo Yeong-wook Nominated
Jo Sang-kyeong (costume
Technical Award Nominated
design)
Best Cinematography Chung Chung-hoon Won
Boston Society of Film Critics[41] Best Foreign Language
The Handmaiden Won
Film
Best Film The Handmaiden Nominated
Best Director Park Chan-wook Nominated
Best Actress Kim Min-hee Nominated
Best New Actress Kim Tae-ri Won
Buil Film Awards
Best Cinematography Chung Chung-hoon Nominated
Best Art Direction Ryu Seong-hee Won
Best Music Jo Yeong-wook Nominated
Buil Readers' Jury Award Park Chan-wook Won
Busan Film Critics Awards Best New Actress Kim Tae-ri Won
Palme d'Or Park Chan-wook Nominated
Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm Park Chan-wook Nominated
Vulcan Award Ryu Seong-hee Won
Chicago Film Critics Best Film The Handmaiden Nominated
Association[42]
Best Director Park Chan-wook Nominated
Park Chan-wook and
Best Adapted Screenplay Won
Chung Seo-kyung
Best Cinematography Chung Chung-hoon Nominated
Best Foreign Language
The Handmaiden Won
Film
 Best Art Direction The Handmaiden Won
Best Foreign Language
Critics' Choice Awards[43] The Handmaiden Nominated
Film
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Best Foreign Language
The Handmaiden Won
Association[44] Film

Best Actress Kim Min-hee Won

Director's Cut Awards
Best New Actress Kim Tae-ri Won
Best Foreign Language
The Handmaiden Runner-up
Florida Film Critics Circle[45] Film
Best Cinematography Chung Chung-hoon Runner-up

Korean Association of Film Critics Top Ten Films of the Year The Handmaiden Won
Awards Best Cinematography Chung Chung-hoon Won
Best Film The Handmaiden 7th Place
Best Director Park Chan-wook 5th Place
Best Original Score or
IndieWire Critics Poll[46] The Handmaiden 8th Place
Soundtrack
Best Cinematography The Handmaiden 4th Place
Best Editing The Handmaiden 8th Place
Best Production Design Ryu Seong-hee Won
Los Angeles Film Critics
Association[47] Best Foreign Language
The Handmaiden Won
Film
Melbourne International Film
Most Popular Feature Film The Handmaiden Runner-up
Festival
Best Foreign Language
New York Film Critics Online[48] The Handmaiden Won
Film
San Diego Film Critics Best Foreign Language
The Handmaiden Nominated
Society[49][50] Film

Park Chan-wook and

Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated
Chung Seo-kyung
San Francisco Film Critics
Best Foreign Language
Circle[51][52] The Handmaiden Won
Film
Best Production Design Ryu Seong-hee Won
Best Production Design Ryu Seong-hee Won
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics
Association[53] Best Foreign Language
The Handmaiden Runner-up
Film
Best Foreign Language
Toronto Film Critics Association[54] The Handmaiden Runner-up
Film
Best Foreign Language
Vancouver Film Critics Circle[55] The Handmaiden Nominated
Film
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Best Foreign Language
The Handmaiden Nominated
Association[56] Film

Best Foreign Film by or

Women Film Critics Circle[57] The Handmaiden Won
about Women
2017 Asian Film Awards[58][59] Best Supporting Actress Moon So-ri Won
Best Newcomer Kim Tae-ri Won
Best Screenplay Park Chan-wook and Nominated
Chung Seo-kyung
 Best Production Designer Ryu Seong-hee Won
Kim Jae-bum and Kim
Best Editor Nominated
Sang-bum
Best Costume Designer Jo Sang-kyeong Won
Grand Prize Park Chan-wook Won
Best Film The Handmaiden Nominated
Best Director Park Chan-wook Nominated
Best Actress Kim Min-hee Nominated
Baeksang Arts Awards[60][61]
Best Supporting Actor Cho Jin-woong Nominated
Best New Actress Kim Tae-ri Nominated
Park Chan-wook and
Best Screenplay Nominated
Chung Seo-kyung
Director of the Year Park Chan-wook Nominated
Foreign Language Film of
The Handmaiden Won
the Year
Dorian Awards[62]
LGBTQ Film of the Year The Handmaiden Nominated
Visually Striking Film of the
The Handmaiden Nominated
Year
Best Picture The Handmaiden Nominated
Houston Film Critics Society[63][64] Best Foreign Language
The Handmaiden Won
Film

National Board of Review[65] Top 5 Foreign Films The Handmaiden Won

Best Foreign Language

National Society of Film Critics[66] The Handmaiden 2nd Place
Film
Best Picture The Handmaiden Nominated
Online Film Critics Society[67] Best Foreign Language
The Handmaiden Won
Film
Best Foreign Language
Satellite Awards[68] The Handmaiden Nominated
Film
Best International Film The Handmaiden Won
Saturn Awards[69]
Best Costume Design Jo Sang-kyeong Nominated
Best Picture of the Year The Handmaiden Nominated
Best Foreign Language
The Handmaiden Nominated
Seattle Film Critics Society[70][71] Film
Best Production Design Ryu Seong-hee Won
Best Costume Design Jo Sang-kyeong Won
Best Film Not in the Park Chan-wook and Syd
British Academy Film Awards[72] Won
English Language Lim

2018 Empire Awards[73][74] Best Thriller The Handmaiden Pending

London Film Critics Circle Foreign Language Film of

The Handmaiden Nominated
Awards[75] the Year

See also
Fingersmith, BBC mini-series that is also based on the book of the same name
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External links
Official website
The Handmaiden on IMDb
Review on The Guardian.
Review for The Handmaiden by film critic Lee Dong-jin

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