Where was The Handmaiden filmed?
2016 film directed by Park Chan-wook
The Handmaiden (2016) was filmed in Nagoya and Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts — 2 recorded filming locations in Japan, South Korea. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
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Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Nagoya
🇯🇵 Japan
capital city of Aichi prefecture, Japan
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts
🇰🇷 South Korea
School in Anseong, South Korea
Also per Wikipedia's Locations section
Wikipedia’s Locations section names 1 more place. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏙 Towns & cities
Kuwana
🇯🇵 Japan
city in Mie Prefecture, Japan
“Kouzuki's mansion with combined elements of Japanese and British architecture was filmed in Kuwana in Mie prefecture in Japan, using the exterior of the Moroto Seiroku Mansion and CGI to augment exterior details.” Wikipedia
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in Goheung County, Pyeongchang County, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
Also shot in these places
Set in the same places
More filmed in Japan
- Inception 2010
- Skyfall 2012
- Lost in Translation 2003
- The Last Samurai 2003
- The Wolverine 2013
- Around the World in 80 Days 1956
Every filming location in Japan →
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does The Handmaiden have?
2 places recorded on Wikidata, and 1 place named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across 2 countries.
In which countries was The Handmaiden filmed?
Japan and South Korea.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992), each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.