The President's Barber(2004)

movie - first aired/released 2004-05-05 - 116 min - audience 7.1

History, Drama, Comedy

Directed by Lim Chan-sang

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.