Handmaiden, The (Ah-ga-ssi) (2016)

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Synopsis

Korean-language Drama. In 1930s Korea, a pickpocket (Kim Tae-ri) becomes the maid of a Japanese heiress (Kim Min-hee) in an attempt to persuade her to fall in love with a con man (Ha Jung-woo).

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, vulgar expressions, and ethno-cultural slurs
• Frequent use of detailed sexual language and references
• Infrequent portrayals of weapons and hand-to-hand violence, some in a domestic context, some in a context of torture – some blood and detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual assault – no nudity, little detail
• Frequent portrayals of sexual activity, some in a BDSM context, some in a pictorial context – breast and buttock nudity, detail
• Infrequent breast, buttock, and male and female genital nudity in a non-sexual context

Thematic elements

• True love
• Eroticism and power
• Manipulation and deception

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for detailed sexual content in a dramatic context

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