The President's Barber

Name: The President's Barber
Director: Lim Chan-sang
Released: 2004
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Song Kang-ho, Song Kang-ho, Moon So-ri, Moon So-ri, Lee Jae-eung

2004 · 116 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 1,076 VOTES · DIR. Lim Chan-sang

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,364 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:35 Presented by iPICTURES

00:05:44 Hey!

00:09:09 How about eight months?

00:12:42 What are you waiting for? Are you crazy?

00:16:37 What flower are you looking for?

00:20:14 That's why

00:24:34 Tonight

00:29:43 Are you Sung Han-mo?

00:33:06 Louder

00:39:26 What are people saying about the bridge?

00:43:54 You bring your family as well

00:47:34 No, sir

00:51:09 Know what this is?

00:57:27 Shit!

01:01:16 So that means that somebody

01:04:17 - Why? - Well...

01:07:32 Why?

01:12:15 The shock treatment

01:18:25 What are you getting at?

01:21:33 Mom

01:29:51 I'm sorry

01:35:19 Crazy bastard

01:44:15 What?

16:19:06 Coup d'etat

Cast & Characters

Song Kang-ho Seong Han-mo Song Kang-ho Barber Moon So-ri Kim Min-ja Moon So-ri Barber's wife Lee Jae-eung Seong Nak-han Lee Jae-eung Barber's son Jo Yeong-jin President Son Byung-ho Jang Hyeok-soo Park Yong-soo Park Jong-man Ryu Seung-su Jin-gi Yun Ju-sang Mr. Choi Jeong Gyu-su Mr. Wang

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,364

Dialogue density11.8 lines / min

First line00:00:35

Final line16:19:06

Production Record

DirectorLim Chan-sang

LanguageKorean

IMDb votes1,076