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[Machine Translation] A nationwide theatrical smash hit in the fall of 2024. A moving human drama that won the Akira Kurosawa Award! Based on a scenario modeled on his own mother's, Taiwanese director Hu Tien-Yu, who is also active as a writer and music video director, spent three years filming at his family's actual barbershop in Taichung. The entire film evokes a soft sense of nostalgia, while delicately depicting the journey of finding new hope after a tumultuous time. The film stars Lou Hsiao-hsien as the main character, Earl Lee, who returns to the silver screen after a 24-year absence, winning the Best Actress Award at the Taipei Film Awards and the Yakushi Shinju Award (Best Actor) at the Osaka Asian Film Festival. The film co-stars Hu Mong-Bo ("The Day the Words Disappeared"), who won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Taipei Film Awards for his performance in "The Return to School". Also making special appearances are Chen Bo-lin (Blue Summer Love) and Lin Bo-hong (Me and a Ghost in the Family). --A traditional barbershop on a street corner in Taichung, Taiwan. The three children he raised with his own hands are now independent, and the owner, Mr. Arui, stands alone in his store today, his scissors clanging as he serves his regular customers. A gentleman comes in for a haircut to attend his son's graduation ceremony, an elderly man comes in for his first gray hair dye job after being told by his late wife standing by his bedside that his hair should be black, and a high school boy pleads with his parents not to tell him to get his hair styled in the latest fashion...the store seems as if time has stopped, but in fact there are many tears and laughter, The shop, where time seems to have stopped, is actually quite busy with tears and laughter. One day, when Mr. Arui learns that his "teacher," who has been coming to the store from a town far away, is on the verge of illness, he hangs a sign in the store that says "Closed Today," and heads for the town for one last haircut....
Original Release Year: 2023
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