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In a typical Korean barber-shop, the barber spins a yarn about the pair of scissors he has framed on the wall. It's a hair-raising yarn. The scissors, he says, were given to him by his father, who was tortured with them during his time as a political prisoner. But the reason they're framed is queerer still...
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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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