Cinema Service & CJ Entertainment Present
A JOWOO Films Production
SUNG Ji-roo
SUNG Hyun-ah
LEE Sun-kyun
and MYUNG Kay-nam
Directed by OH Kee-hyun
The Customer Is Always Right
There was a death in your barber shop.
Don't you think that deserves one sort of statement or other?
Either a confession or that he walked in and cut his own throat!
Come up with something to say, will you, man!
Maestro Barbering Shop
This Much I Miss You.
The Customer Is Always Right
- Oh, I'm running late! - Off somewhere?
Oh, I've got this big business lunch meeting
with one of my clients today.
K-L-E-l-N?
Oh, honey. Don't look at me like that.
You look one of your best today.
Think so?
Well, you know I can turn heads with the best of them.
You look like anything but an insurance saleswoman.
There you go again. It's 'life planner'!
You don't like it a bit when someone calls you haircutter, right?
Honey, do you want me to be on the same level as those
hick-past-their-prime insurance women?
Not really...
You won't be using the car today, will you?
I'll take it around the block then.
- Honey, hold on a sec. - What's wrong?
Do I have to...
have lunch alone again today?
Oh, that's right! Your lunch!
I don't know where my mind is these days.
Oh, what am I going to do?
Should I go in and make something for you now?
Don't worry about it. You're late, remember?
Oh, I'm sorry, honey.
It's alright. Better hurry! Can't be late.
I'll probably be running late tonight too.
Make sure you eat on time though, ok? Promise?
Just take care of your business with K-L-E-l-N.
I'm sorry, honey. I don't have to say it, right?
An empty rice bowl dimwit always wants
three square meals every damn day!
Idiot!
You see, I've always viewed barbering as being nothing short of art really.
For someone like myself,
there is more to barbering than simple technique.
Miss Lee? You're bright and early today.
Any messages for me?
Usually the image of a barber shop
in the country is rundown, arid...
with private rooms
and rubdowns, but...
No ladies that give massages here?
Whatever, just give me a haircut.
On second thought, I'll come back next time.
If you don't mind, I'll come back next time.
What's with all this guy's whining when he hasn't sold one policy yet?
Tell him to go take a hike if he calls again.
Mr. SHIN? How about meeting for a drink?
Of course it's on me!
At the bathhouse, there were gentlemen there with a lot of tattoos.
A bathtub full of dragons and serpents weaving around, oh boy!
I figured we had something in common: I cut people's hair while they cut people!
Hey! Don't forget I know more than you like to admit!
You know what'll happen if I let the manager in on your secret!
Ah sweetie, it's got nothing to do with my job.
I'm not going to see you anymore if you keep that up.
You know the spinning barber's pole?
The red, blue, and white thing?
You know, it originally stood for vein, artery and bandage.
Oh, don't ask me those questions.
You have to take care of them.
What I means is... you have to leave your wife first...
before I can do anything to cut loose
from that suffocating barbershop!
You can credit me for my dedication,
work ethic, and artistic nature.
Ah, yes. The place we had eel. How could I forget?
Now that I'm done redecorating my shop for what was 1.13 million won a pyung...
Ok, I'll see you there, bye
these pair of scissors alone comes out to be worth 750 thousand won!
I always have in mind of bringing passion and soul into my work
Guess your young pretty wife's off again somewhere?
She's just so busy these days.
She's a very busy insurance saleswoman you know, I mean life planner.
She has a very important business meeting today.
No doubt, no doubt about it...
but I can't help thinking it very odd
that she should be out and
about when her man's stomach is growling.
It breaks my heart just thinking how hard she's working
without even breaking for lunch.
Oh boy. Could it just be the wind or
are you just simply whipped out of your mind?
You're the man. Got the market cornered in
setting an example for all us men.
Wear your jewels as they're meant to be
or go ahead and enter a new line of business,
why don't you?
A pack of the most popular brand, please.
Oh yeah,
that reminds me of the other day when,
uhm.
What was it?
Guess it was a few days back
when this weird-looking guy
came out of nowhere and was standing in front.
I remember getting a bad feeling the minute
I laid eyes on the guy.
A chill ran straight up my spine and snapped me right out my daze.
Smoking in my store like he owned the place,
this guy
lifts his hand in super-slow motion and points somewhere outside the store.
I follow the finger and see he's pointing to
none other than your shop.
And he asked me a bunch of questions
about your name, age...
What's your business like? ...on and on.
I said I didn't know
a thing, but
He asks all these questions
until he's done smoking his cigarette, then
he leaves much the same way he came in: Without a hiss!
Just like that he was gone,
like his fumes of his cigarette, into thin air.
I tell you, there are all kinds, all kinds.
"I know your best kept secret."
Hello?
- Are you scared? - What?
Fear. It nibbles away at your soul. Am I Right?
Who you call? Who are you?
I'm the keeper your dirty little secret.
Who are you?
Who the hell are you?
The name's Yang-gil.
Be well for you to remember. See you soon.
- U R with a guy? - Yeah.
- U think he's fit 4 U? - No, he's just an old fart.
Sorry, I need to send an urgent message to my friend.
Take a shower.
- Why don't you use your phone? - The battery is dead.
Hey, buttons.
Your hands are so soft.
Like a girl's.
Are all barbers' hands so soft? Hm.
"What's UR name?" "Ur A-G?"
What's UR name?
KIM Yoo-hwa.
How old?
Ur A-G?
It's alright. I'm not a minor, don't worry.
No, I mean, what I want to know is...
You do this often?
Not really, but when I need money.
Your folks don't care?
Do they know you make money by doing this?
Needless to say they don't. And my dad is broke.
He doesn't pay the bills!
But it'll be the end of us both if he ever finds out.
So you better watch, honey.
In case you don't know, let me tell you the rule...
It's 'etiquette' to give before taking.
Is that so?
Let me see, 150,000 won.
Oh, I can't stand it any more.
I think I might have had too much to drink, this headache.
I've got a tummy ache too.
What I'd do for a vial of Condition right now.
Rest until I
run and come back with some Condition.
That would be a big Thank You then
Do you have a battery charger here?
Oh there
Oh brother
Your battery is all charged...
At one time my dream was to be an artist, painter.
I'd be somewhere else if it wasn't my father's will.
In any case
It's how I am the 3rd generation of this Maestro Barber Shop.
Technique is not all that's needed to be a maestro.
Artistic spirit and toil, passion and energy...
- Mozart, - Pardon?
This music.
It sums up what I think of my job,
no punk, no rock'n'roll...
Only classic is the one.
It can make my customers feel so special.
What's so cool with classic is
that it doesn't have lyrics.
And speaking of this music...
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 25 in G minor.
The 1st movement of KV 183,
It's at the opening scene of the movie "Amadeus"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Everyone calls him a genius.
Makes me laugh. I don't think so in the least.
His music is overrated.
He was just very lucky with
so few musicians around.
Beethoven, Schuman, Weber, Chopin, Strauss...
Wagner, Leoncavallo...
Brahms, Verdi, Chaikovskii, Bartok, on and on...
But you know what? All of them showed up after Mozart.
Which means, 95% of the music
we enjoy didn't exist then.
Any guy who happened to make music;
people adored him, that's it!
What a pity, if I had been born then,
I'd have hit the big time!
But Mozart never realized that he simply caught
a lucky break!
You are so keen on music, sir.
- You are AHN Chang-jin? - Correct, sir.
I know a lot more about you than you think I do.
And you must know my name.
KIM Yang-gil.
Do you know how shameful and
vile it was what you did?
Though you yourself may think nothing of it.
What you committed was...
a punishable crime.
Cus... customer sir.
What are you talking about?
Your hands are so soft.
Barbers' hands are soft, right?
They appear very kind.
Totally different from mine, eh?
Sir...
It was months ago.
You don't think
everyone can make
such a mistake?
Believe it or not,
I did nothing to the girl.
You say 'nothing'? Such an unforgivable sin!
You got it all wrong.
It is me who is the real victim in this.
If you insist on doing this...
I'm wondering...
If your wife knew this;
you'd keep playing innocent?
You're here to threaten me?
Threaten?
No, never.
I'm here to give you a chance to make right your wrong.
Quit twitching, man.
What if you cut my throat?
You did a great job;
it's what a maestro is like!
You're a rare maestro barber,
in this world of forgery and sham.
Let me be one of your regulars.
- How much? - What?
I got to pay.
15,000 won.
You'd have charged more than that...
I should pay, but you should lend me 150,000 won.
What?
You say no?
What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
leaning on the everlasting arms;
AHN Chang-jin!
You've got homework. Next time,
I'd like to be paid double, okay?
I'll be back!
What's wrong? Not in the mood?
So... rry.
It's alright, don't get stressed out about it.
Would you like a handjob?
No, that's alright.
No? Fine, then.
I want new wallpaper.
This is out-of-date and old fashioned.
Maestro Barbering Shop - 3rd Generation
I gave her time to repent, and she (he) does not want
to repent of her immorality - Revelation 2:21
Yeon-ok, darling...
A married woman as beautiful as you torture men!
Sir, I believe you tell very shitty jokes.
No. I am at this moment in total, complete agony.
Oh stop it, I'm not torturing you.
Though I have to say that before I was dealt these cards here
I used to gorgeous in my prime.
You know what? You still are
- You are like a bass. - What?
The contrabass, you know, the instrument.
I mean, you look and feel
like a Stradivari violin.
Wow, a Starbody... you really have a way with words.
You must've gone to school all the way, right?
But do you want to know something?
Even the finest instrument is useless
without a musician worthy to play it.
Only in the hands of a true maestro will the piece yield
its true sounds.
But it all goes to waste
if it meets some third-class amateur.
Oh, what I'd give to make those sounds rising from me just once.
You should.
And your shaving touch makes me
feel like I'm in heaven.
I used to be a hair stylist.
I worked for the beauty shop just one block away.
Oh, I can tell.
And this uncouth guy was all over me,
and asked me out.
He threatened that he'd go kill himself if I turned his proposal down.
At the thought that I'd be saving someone's life,
I married him.
So you mean that the man you married was none other than the barber?
Yes,
But come to think of it now,
I wish I'd left him for dead or alive.
This is just between you and me, but
you got a boyfriend?
Why? You want to be mine?
It'd be 'Ok buddy' for me if you don't mind this old dog.
You're slowly get busy with me, aren't you?
This is just between me and you,
but could you do me a favor?
Oh really? I can take that as a yes then?
Course you can, that's not that hard.
You know what else, come here.
Ok? Yeah, yeah.
Honey, it's you.
Sleeping in? It's so unlike you.
I heard favor. What favor?
Huh?
You asked him for a favor, I heard.
That favor? It's nothing.
I let him apply for insurance.
Give it to me.
- Go in, I'll do it. - Ok, gotcha.
Say, you've a fine woman there, soft as silk...
Fragrant as spring flowers.
Oh, good.
Take her easy now. You might hurt yourself.
I believe you did your homework,
double the cash?
Do I get a comeback or what?
I'm talking to you
Look, that kind of money
it isn't peanuts for people like me, you know?
No I don't, but the doe I borrowed from you
I'm making exact note of it in my journal so no need to sweat it.
Journal?
You think this is some loan from a bank or something, do you?
This is blackmail. Blackmail I say plain as vanilla.
Look here, relax I say relax.
And another thing.
Looks to me like you've got something turned around but
I'm just a guy who's borrowed a little money
from his good neighborhood barber
You'd say blackmail? I know no such thing.
Fine. If you keep doing this
I'm going to the police.
This is plain as vanilla blackmail. A heinous crime!
Obviously you've no idea what constitutes a crime.
Causing the death of a perfectly healthy young woman with a hit and run
Hit and run?
Now that's what's called heinous crime.
A true blue abominable crime. Get it?
What are you talking about?
You need more acting lessons.
I asked you what the hell you're talking about!
Life is like a play.
And you fret and strut upon the stage.
But you are such a third-rate actor!
You'd have done better sticking by
your innocent act from the beginning!
What play acting? What hit and run?
Let me have the honor to unveil
the mystery of your awful play.
Your car is a white Avante...
plate number 02-da-7060, with you at the wheel...
You hit a girl on 4th Ave and ran away.
You killed her!
You are the murderer!
But the bittersweet twist of fate sent a witness to it.
You know who it was?
It was...
Me!
You said you'd call the police?
Shall I dial it for you? 112.
Mr. Ahn Chang-jin,
you're the murdered of a good kind-hearted woman.
Just one word from me and it's over for you.
You thick-headed third-rate cutter of hair you.
Look at you.
Did you make it stand all on your own?
Oh, what's this? Relax them eye muscles right now.
"The Customer Is Always Right."
The Customer is always right, huh?
So I am right, and you're not!
And you got no guts to rebel against the right thing.
What a fellowship, what a joy divine, leaning on the everlasting arms;
Let me see...
I'm so envious of you!
You have such a hot and spicy girl!
Oh Jesus, they're so beautiful, perfect perfection.
I took a peek, and saw she was with no no no bra.
Whenever I see a young woman like Yeon-ok
I wonder what she might sound like in bed.
No more nos anymore, so get it ready,
times two.
This devil comes to my shop to no end...
I screw him out of money; double the amount every time.
"Hey, Maestro, my beard grows so fast.
No more no less, double the amount.
This is all I got. Please end this horrible story.
You've got to do the same homework; double the amount.
Don't think your sin is forgiven at this stage.
I even borrowed from a loan shark for the money.
No end is in sight.
Hey, Mr. Cute Haircutter.
You borrow money; you should pay it back!
It's the way we're all happy together.
We're~ all~ happy~ together!
Better quit wasting time and
grab me a pair of them scissors or a razor or something
and take me a souvenir this one this one right here like this.
Mister we're closed for b-niss, today.
Wow, fancy shades.
Hey mister, your age affecting your hearing now, ain't it?
Let me drill a hole in there for ya.
- Hello, Chang-jin! - Welcome sir.
- How's business? - Well...
Got a new customer, I see!
First come first serve, huh?
Here we go, I am too busy to wait long.
Cut it short.
That's not the first time I've seen that face.
Have we met before?
I saw you somewhere maybe on TV?
Many say so to see my favorable impression, so...
What are you talking about?
On the wanted list? Then I should've noticed it.
My brain has been updated
on all the wanted bastards.
Hit and run driver got caught by the surveillance camera.
- It hurts, Chang-jin! - Sorry, sir.
I was thinking of something else.
He hit over a high school girl
at in the middle of the night and ran like a rat.
What a scum he is!
Speaking of which...
Killers, they are. Those who hit and run.
Those who hit and run are evil.
- Sub-human they are. - I'll second that.
All of them should get crushed to
death with the same vehicles.
I'm curious, if they ever get caught...
How heavily are they sentenced?
Okay, they hit and run and get caught...
I'm not sure but...
When the victim dies, it's usually a life sentence...
or no less than 5 years in the joint.
So, if they do it and get caught, it's over. Hmm.
What's your interest in the hit and run cases.
Oh. I know someone
who's having a hard time over a hit and run.
Just look in the mirror, sir.
"Ernesto Guevara de la Serna"
What?