The President's Barber
A time when a bad haircut can get you killed.
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5/5/2004Runtime
116 minsOverview
A well-meaning but politically naive barber gets pulled into the inner circle of the South Korean dictator Park Chung-Hee, with rather baleful consequences for his hapless family. This sharp political satire covers roughly twenty years in South Korean political history, from the viewpoint of the barber's son.
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A dark political satire that traces how proximity to tyranny corrupts everyday life, told through the eyes of a barber's son watching his father's naive ambition spiral into tragedy. The film balances black comedy with mounting dread as decades of dictatorship close in on an ordinary family.
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