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Lady Hideko: You can even curse at me or steal things from me. But please don't lie to me. Understand?
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Sook-Hee: My aunt said when you hear that guests will come, drop everything and go bathe the children. The guests like the smell of a clean baby. Miss, you are my baby. My aunt also said, give the babies candy when they bathe, to teach them that bath time is sweet.
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Sook-Hee: I need to remind myself that I want to be rich and then travel somewhere far, eat foreign foods, buy bright shiny things and, most importantly... forget about Hideko.
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Lady Hideko: [whispering] What does a man really want?
Sook-Hee: What?
Lady Hideko: What I mean is... the wedding night. How would I know? I grew up without a mother to teach me. I have no idea about any of this.
[pause]
Lady Hideko: Probably kissing first?
Sook-Hee: [thinking] Alright. Let's try to put her to sleep. So adorable. In a foreign country and without a mother. Alone in this giant mansion. Reading useless books. And learning nothing of value.
Lady Hideko: [thinking] Why did the taste change? Sour and bitter. Within the bitterness changes to sweetness. Sweet with a nice scent.
Lady Hideko: How do you know? Have you done this before?
Sook-Hee: Nope, not at all, my friend showed me this.
Lady Hideko: Showed you? By describing?
Sook-Hee: Yes, by describing.
Lady Hideko: So this is the felling!
Sook-Hee: This is what the Count wants!
Lady Hideko: Really?
Sook-Hee: The Count...
Lady Hideko: Would it be like being with a corpse? You know, my hands and legs cold?
Sook-Hee: Is that so?
Lady Hideko: Do you want to feel it?
Sook-Hee: I just feel relieved!
Lady Hideko: Relief? Do it to me. I want to personally know if it's relieving.
Sook-Hee: The Count will want to do this too. And also... So cute! If the Count sees this...
Lady Hideko: Will he be as gentle as you?
Sook-Hee: Of course! The Count will also... also...
Lady Hideko: Continue! Just like that! As if the Count was doing it!
Sook-Hee: After that, he would say "How soft and warm." So... so wet. Your beauty leaves me breathless!
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Uncle Kouzuki: You have a week of freedom. But you must remember the thing in the cellar.
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Lady Hideko: [narrating] At that moment, a drop of insanity could cause one to go completely mad. If I could drive Sasaki mad as well, then life would've been more fun.
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Count Fujiwara: Women love to play with fate.
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Lady Hideko: Men are disgusting. Why do you always think of those things?
Count Fujiwara: You're asking me about how I think? You think that all I'm interested in is your body? Is that so? You definitely have been reading too many of those erotic writings! If there's anything I do want from you it's not your eyes, hands, or ass, but your money. You having the first is money. Talking and teasing an aristocrat like you is so fun!
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Lady Hideko: It would have been better if I was never born. To have never taken a breath and live.
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Lady Hideko: Is it stupid to love someone being someone like you?
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Lady Hideko: Love. A conman like you knows what love is?
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Uncle Kouzuki: I am a dirty old man who likes erotica. Everyone absorbs very story differently. That is my passion. But now, it's all over. What do I do?
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[last lines]
Count Fujiwara: Even like this, dying is a luxury.
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Lady Hideko: The daughter of a legendary thief, who sewed winter coats out of stolen purses. Herself a thief, pickpocket, swindler. The saviour who came to tear my life apart. My Tamako. My Sookee.
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Count Fujiwara: Anything you want. The sky is the limit.
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Lady Hideko: But, for sending me Sookee out of all the girls in the world, I feel 'slightly' grateful.
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Sook-Hee: Where I come from, it's illegal to be naive.
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Sook-Hee: [For Lady Hideko] She's so naive, even if a man pulls on her nipples she won't know what he wants!
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Aunt of Lady Hideko: [Reciting] When Jinlian finally took off her clothes, Ximen Qing examined her Jade Gate, discovering the Secret Well to find it hairless, white as snow, and smooth as jade. Tight as a drum, and soft as silk. Once he drew apart the curtains of flesh, a scent of well-aged wine emanated from within, and on fold upon fold of the red velvet interior, beads of dew were forming. Its centre was dark and void, yet as if it had its own life, it twitched and twitched...
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Uncle Kouzuki: Korea is ugly, and Japan is beautiful.
Count Fujiwara: Some Japanese say Japan is ugly and Korea is beautiful.
Uncle Kouzuki: Korea is soft, slow, dull, and therefore hopeless.
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Lady Hideko: You think you're tricking me? You're the one being tricked.
The Handmaiden Quotes
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Emilio 2022-03-22 09:01:45
It's like saliva rice from begging in delicate tableware. He speaks Japanese well, but the aristocratic taste that he has learned is sour. Obviously both the director and the actors have studied the bbc version (la vie d'adèle was copied in the bed scene), and Ha Jung-woo played it according to Evans; but the two protagonists can't even copy, and it is rare to have zero acting skills, zero sparks, and forbearance. The sex scenes with disgusting expressions were unbearably blunt. Blindly catering to curious audiences with visual effects, Park Zanyu is already very poor.
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Coby 2022-04-24 07:01:06
Crafty prostitutes. The front is very good, the picture and rhythm are very comfortable, the rear is a bit unstoppable, especially in the last twenty minutes, it takes too much work. I don't like the sex scene very much. It looks astringent. It may be better if it is placed on a rainy day. I personally don't like this kind of overly dramatic film, but it is really beautiful, and the maid is also my type. One more star for beautifully crafted.
