Im Sang-soo's Housemaid drags a wealthy household's private arrangements into daylight, turning a domestic hire into the fuse for a slow-burning crisis of loyalty and class.
What is Housemaid about?
A composer's household runs on quiet routines until a new housemaid joins the staff and the balance of the home starts to shift. Her presence draws the composer's attention in ways his wife notices almost immediately, and the ordinary rhythms of meals, errands, and shared space curdle into suspicion. As jealousy takes hold, the household's carefully kept hierarchy of who serves whom, and who actually holds power, comes apart. What starts as a domestic drama about proximity and duty tightens into something closer to a standoff, with each character weighing what they are owed against what they are willing to risk to keep it.
About the cast
The film is led by Jeon Do-yeon and Lee Jung-jae, with Seo Woo, Youn Yuh-jung, Park Ji-young, Ahn Seo-hyun, Hwang Jeong-min, and Moon So-ri rounding out the household. It is an ensemble built around actors known across South Korean cinema for precise, controlled performances, which suits a story that runs on withheld reactions as much as open confrontation.
Context & significance
Director Im Sang-soo works in South Korean crime drama with an eye for class tension inside enclosed domestic spaces, and Housemaid sits comfortably in that register: a single household standing in for a wider set of pressures around money, service, and who gets to make decisions. At 111 minutes, the film keeps its focus tight on that one home rather than widening out, letting small shifts in behavior carry the weight of the plot.
Watching Housemaid on Ktime
Housemaid streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose either a fully Farsi-language watch or the original Korean with Farsi text on screen. The page itself is free to browse; watching the film requires only a free K-Time account login, no separate purchase.