![]() ![]() This time his touchstone of choice is Rebecca, Hitchcock’s foray into lesbian Gothic psychodrama that earned him his only Best Picture Oscar in 1940. His follow up, The Handmaiden, sees him transporting Sarah Waters’ 2002 novel Fingersmith from Victorian England to his homeland during its occupation by the Japanese during the 1930s. In 2013, he made his English language debut with Stoker, a chilly, Gothic riff on Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt. Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy – which includes his breakout hit, Oldboy – is generally credited with letting Western audiences know that South Koreans excel at revenge cinema. Complications arise when Sook-he and Hideko grow closer than either intended. Little does she know that her beloved suitor, Count Fujiwara, and her new handmaiden, Sook-he, are actually con artists looking to swindle her out of her fortune. ![]() Lady Hideko is a sheltered young heiress living under the watchful eye of her cruel uncle on a palatial estate in 1930s Korea. ![]()
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