![Song Kang-ho](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/joAXWwyjeed7qRDJ6jxSiMi7f5i.jpg)
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.