{"id":11587,"date":"2016-11-30T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11587"},"modified":"2021-08-15T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T20:51:09","slug":"the-handmaiden-2016-chan-wook-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11587","title":{"rendered":"The Handmaiden (2016, Chan-wook Park)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Couldn’t enjoy this as much as I should because I was in a weird state of mind, but it’s supremely entertaining, recalling Bound<\/a><\/em> in its story of fortune-seeking men double-crossed by crafty female lovers.<\/p>\n

The first half is told from the perspective of Sookee (Tae-ri Kim), a pickpocket working for handsome Jung-woo Ha (Ki-duk’s Time<\/a><\/em>), who has his eyes on bigger marks, posing as a Count and getting Sookee hired as handmaiden to Lady Hideko (Min-hee Kim of Right Now, Wrong Then<\/em>). The plan is to convince the Lady to marry the Count, then commit her to an institution and share her wealth, but Sookee is double-crossed and committed instead. The second part follows the Lady, who lives with her book collector uncle (Jin-woong Jo, only 40 but given gray hair and mustache) at his increasingly sinister estate, revealing her own moments and motives, some of which I’ve now forgotten because it’s been a very long month, but it’s an audacious and elegant movie and when it comes out on video I’ll happily get lost in it again.<\/p>\n

Well-presented to English speaking audiences with Japanese and Korean dialogue in different colored subtitles. This is the year of Hokusai – first the animated biopic<\/a>, then his wave appearing in Kubo<\/a><\/em> and his porno octopus in this movie. I double-featured this at the Alamo with a 35mm screening of Possession<\/a><\/em>, which was completely incredible and now cemented as one of my favorite movies, and which also features a porno octopus.<\/p>\n

July 2021:<\/strong> Watching this again. I get the sense from twitter that as a reaction to the joyless superhero movie landscape, an interest in pervy horny movies is back in style, just doing my part.<\/p>\n

The “Count” is hired to forge rare books so millionaire porn collector Kouzuki doesn’t have to part with the ones he sells. Now I recognize The Lady Kim Min-hee from the Hong Sang-soo films – the other woman is Kim Tae-ri, who has since starred in a historical drama miniseries and a sci-fi movie, both on netflix.<\/p>\n

The Count with Tae-ri:<\/em>
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The Count with Min-hee:<\/em>
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The Count being tortured to death by pornographer uncle Kouzuki:<\/em>
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Couldn’t enjoy this as much as I should because I was in a weird state of mind, but it’s supremely entertaining, recalling Bound in its story of fortune-seeking men double-crossed by crafty female lovers. The first half is told from the perspective of Sookee (Tae-ri Kim), a pickpocket working for handsome Jung-woo Ha (Ki-duk’s Time), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,741,885,30,36,229,444],"class_list":["post-11587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-chan-wook-park","tag-fraud","tag-identity","tag-japan","tag-korea","tag-pickpocket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14400,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587\/revisions\/14400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}