The film is based on Sarah Waters’ 2002 novel City of Thorns and changes the original Victorian era to the Korean Peninsula under Japanese colonial rule in the 1930s.
It tells the story of a love affair between an aristocratic Japanese woman and her Korean maid, and how they escape the machinations of a sinister con man.
The movie is divided into three parts, each from the point of view of the two female protagonists and a male protagonist, revealing the truth of the story, the plot is very well laid out, in which the bed scene between the lady and the maid is very beautifully filmed, and this movie seems to be the only movie in the erotic category that made it into the IMDB 250.
2016 / South Korea / Drama Suspense Erotica Same-sex / Park Chan-wook / Kim Min-hee Kim Tae-ri
The Duke (Ha Jung-woo) intends to marry Miss Hideko (Kim Min-hee), a Japanese aristocrat, in order to get his hands on her fortune, and then sends Hideko to a mental institution on the grounds that she is suffering from mental illness.
In order to realize his plot, the Duke sends Nam Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri), who was born into a family of thieves, to work as Hideko’s maid, so that the two of them can work together to make Hideko and her fortune their own.
In the eyes of Nan Suk-hee, Hideko is naive but fragile, kind but sensitive, with the passage of time, the two people have a sincere friendship between the two people, while the duke’s hypocrisy and greed of the mask gradually make Nan Suk-hee want to vomit.
However, in the face of high rewards, Nan Suk-hee chose to betray, under her lobbying, Hideko and the duke eloped, held a wedding ceremony, just at this time, an accident occurred that Nan Suk-hee never expected.
