In this twisted, riveting thriller set in 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, a female pickpocket works as a handmaiden as part of a scheme to swindle a Japanese heiress out of her fortune. However ...

She burst onto the scene after winning an audition to play the title role in Park Chan-wook’s acclaimed 2016 big-screen erotic thriller The Handmaiden. A Seoul native, Kim was born in 1990.

Evidently, Park has a thing about rambling properties and lurid potboilers. Much of the action in The Handmaiden takes place in another unusual house, this one reputedly haunted by a suicide.