Top 11 in Top 13 boldest 18+ Korean movies in Asia.
Trailer: The Handmaiden (2016)
The Handmaiden is set in the Japanese colonialist occupation of Korea. A thief named Sook Hee (Kim Tae Ri) is hired by a fraudulent officer pretending to be Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung Woo) to pretend to be the maid of noble lady Hideko (Kim Min Hee)-the girl Fujiwara intends to marry. What he didn't foresee was for Sook Hee to fall madly in love with Hideko after seeing her uncle Kouzuki forcing her to perform pornographic scenes. Sook Hee stopped Hideko from committing suicide and exposed his identity as well as the Fujiwara con man's scheme. The Handmaiden premiered in the summer of 2016 and soon became a worldwide sensation. Because of the many "daring scenes", the film was rated 18+ when it was released in Taiwan and Australia.