The Handmaiden

<b>Book tickets for two or more of our <a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/park-chan-wook">Park Chan-wook</a> films to receive a discount! Tickets can also be bought separately.</b> Based on the novel <i>Fingersmith</i> by Sarah Waters and moved from Victorian Britain to 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, <i>The Handmaiden</i> is a tale of deceit and desire that won Park Chan-wook the award for Best Film Not in the English Language at the BAFTAs. Sookee is a pickpocket who is enlisted by a Japanese count to help him seduce a heiress in order to swindle her out of her fortune. Also Japanese, the target of the plan, Hideko, lives in solitude, only with a spacious countryside estate and her imposing Uncle Kouzuki for company. The plan is set into action as Sookee is hired as Hideko's handmaiden and heads to live with her on the estate...ThrillerPT2H25M182026-01-27
Kim Min-hee
Kim Tae-ri
Ha Jung-woo
Park Chan-wook
Syd Lim
The Handmaiden"The Handmaiden"

Showtimes

January 27, 5:45 pm

January 29, 5:30 pm

Filmhouse Cinema