Lady Hideko. 11 Subtle Details That Make Movie Twists Obvious. A poor orphan Sook-Hee Tae-ri Kim is pressured into a scheme to trick the wealthy Lady Hideko Min-hee Kim into being admitted to an insane asylum her family riches sold.
Lady Hideko lives with her Uncle Kouzuki Cho Jin-woong a Korean who helped the Japanese take over his country for a gold mine. Sook-hee is the titular handmaiden in service to a Japanese heiress named Lady Hideko. The plan is for the girl to become Lady Hidekos handmaiden and to help Fujiwara seduce her.
If I revealed anymore about this relationship we would get into major 2nd and 3rd Act spoilers.
Lady is a 2016 South Korean erotic psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Kim Min-hee Kim Tae-ri Ha Jung-woo and Cho Jin-woongIt 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. Sook-Hee asks if Lady Hideko is planning to marry her uncle. She is a model of my ideal woman and hence the name Hideko. Izumi Hideko is a lesbian character from The Handmaiden.