The two end up making love, under the pretext of preparing Hideko for her married life with the Count. Returning frustrated from a reading, Hideko demands Sook-hee sleep next to her. Sook-hee's main job is to help Hideko prepare to read for Kouzuki's guests. Kouzuki then uses this wealth to feed his obsession with rare books, selling forgeries to further accumulate money and books. Hideko lives with her Uncle Kouzuki, a Korean man who helped the Japanese take over his country in exchange for a gold mine. He hires a pickpocket named Sook-hee to become Hideko's maid and encourage Hideko to marry him. In Japanese-occupied Korea, a con man operating under the sobriquet of "Count Fujiwara" plans to seduce a Japanese heiress named Lady Hideko, then marry her and commit her to an asylum in order to steal her inheritance. At the 71st British Academy Film Awards, the film won the category of Best Film Not in the English Language. The film received critical acclaim, with praise for its performances, direction, score, cinematography, visuals, and writing. It was released in South Korea on 1 June 2016. The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
It is inspired by the 2002 novel Fingersmith by Welsh writer Sarah Waters, with the setting changed from Victorian era Britain to Korea under Japanese colonial rule. '"Lady"') is a 2016 South Korean psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo and Cho Jin-woong. The Handmaiden ( Korean: 아가씨 RR: Agassi lit.
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