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The President's Barber

The President's Barber

2004•116 min.•

South Korea

★7.1(37)

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.
  • History
  • Drama
  • Comedy

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