The President's Barber

The President's Barber (2004)

효자동 이발사

A time when a bad haircut can get you killed.

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.

Date of release
2004-05-05
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (41)
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
History, Drama, Comedy
Director
Lim Chan-sang

Casting

Interesting facts

The President's Barber is a 2004 South Korean comedy-drama film written and directed by Im Chan-sang. It follows a barber, his wife, and their only son through four decades of tumultuous Korean history. Much as in Forrest Gump, we see important moments in South Korean history through the eyes of the titular barber, who is drafted to be the official barber of President Park Chung Hee. The role of the barber is played by Song Kang-ho and Moon So-ri plays his wife.

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