Oldboy director Park Chan-Wook has been laying low since his 2013 English-language outing Stoker, however the first trailer for his new movie The Handmaiden just dropped, and needless to say it has us wanting more.

Adapted from the Victorian era-set novel Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, the setting has been transposed onto 1930s Korea during the time of Japanese colonial rule. It centers on a pickpocket who becomes the maid of a wealthy Japanese heiress, and is plotting with a con man in hopes of seizing her inheritance. However when the heiress falls in love with her maid, things take a turn.

The trailer doesn't reveal much but it's packed full of Park's signature tension-building action, with the lush visuals only adding to the suspense. It hits theaters stateside on October 14.

Now check out the trailer for a French live-action version of Beauty and the Beast.