Yoshino's Barber Shop (2004)

Original title

バーバー吉野

Directed by

Naoko Ogigami

Genre

comedy film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

All

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A small Japanese village is home to a barber who gives every boy the same bowl-shaped haircut. When a new boy from Tokyo arrives with dyed hair and refuses to get the traditional cut, the other children start to question the old ways.

whimsicalgentlewarmplayfullightheartednostalgicquirkyunderstated

What happens

Yoshino's Barber Shop (Japanese: バーバー吉野, Hepburn: Barber Yoshino) is a 2004 Japanese coming-of-age film written and directed by Naoko Ogigami in her feature directorial debut. It stars Masako Motai as the titular Yoshino, a barber who ensures that every young boy in her village has a bowl-shaped haircut. When a boy with dyed hair (Hoshi Isida) arrives from Tokyo and refuses to conform to the town's bowl cut, he sparks a rebellion against Yoshino and village tradition. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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