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The President's Barber

  • History
  • Drama
  • Comedy

May 5, 2004 (KR)

1h 56m

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 ...

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