The President's Barber
May 05, 2004 | IMDB 7.1
116 min Watch NowHistory, Drama, Comedy
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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