"Cinema Service CJEntertainmentPresent" "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?" "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." "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?" "My angel, you look more charming out of the barber shop." "Forget about the barber shop." "Thanks, but about the favor I asked last time" "Clean the blood off with that." "There's still a little moisture there, huh?" "Took no time at all getting it there." "Oh boy, she's truly a sexy woman." "Bye bye." "These panties will make you look cool..." "You'll feel the difference when you wear one..." "Sorry, I'm late." "You watching TV?" "Who'd you see today?" "Me?" "Clients, as usual." "Right, one of your recent regulars," "I met him too." "I almost talked him into signing up for insurance..." "But when it comes to the crunch, he's a chicken." "He was just a blockhead." "Hey, how this get here?" "I was wondering where this went." "I thought it was pervert who must've taken it." "You know that kind of a psycho." "What?" "Are you listening to me?" "It was next to the laundry machine." "I'm sure I hung it up after washing it... must have dropped it." "Whatever, I'm hopping in the shower." "Feel sticky." "Jang-gil All-a-round Consulting" "Jang-gil Consulting" " Guaranteed Discretion" "So you want me to look into this guy?" " What's his name?" " KIM Yang-gil." "KIM..." "Yang-gil." "KIM Yang-gil?" "Name rings a bell." "Age?" "I don't know exactly, but roughly..." "From late 50s to early 60s." "Damn old too!" "Address?" "That's one of the things I'm asking you to find out." "No idea where he lives..." "But I know the place where he shows up often..." "When I see him, I'll call you." "You can follow or shadow him..." "That happens to be my area of expertise, ok?" "I'm sorry..." "So, what is it exactly that you'd like to know..." "I mean, the reason you want me to investigate?" "Well..." "Do I have to tell you that?" "No you don't." "Never mind, that's fine." "There's no need." "Your wife must be in this, and it's too private to reveal." "So, what is it that you want to know about him?" "Everything." "Any stinking sore spots, weak points..." "Trust me, he's an ex-convict, so criminal record could help..." "I need to get something on him." "So you're looking to full counter-attack?" "Good!" "You're so realistic in this horrible world." "We hustle and tussle in this bloody world." "So only 'weak-to-the-wall' and 'the survival of the fittest' work!" "Damn, it's so ruthless." "But your project is no joke, so..." "It'll cost a lot." "Money is not a problem." "Nothing is too insignificant to know." "Nothing..." "Ok, let's do it." "Alright?" "The Customer Is Always Right?" "But you are not!" "Hello." "Hello, AHN Chang-jin?" "This is Jang-gil, All-A-Round Consultant." "This is what you paid for." "I suppose you'd like to take a look." "A character and a half that guy, eh?" "Real name is MYUNG Sung-nam, an actor." "Well, he's not in movies anymore, so he used to be an actor." "He is... an actor?" "Right, except that he never had a leading role." "KIM Yang-gil is the name of the character he once had." "He played the ring leader in a flick a while back called "Green Fish."" "And the guy's name in the movie was KIM Yang-gil." "He was nuts about acting on stage since he was in college but..." "He couldn't make ends meet with just acting." "So he got a job at an ad company." "But the next thing I just don't get." "One day he just leaves his regular paying job and starts over chasing his dream of acting." "He was over 40!" "Such a wretched looking old aspiring actor!" "Not even funny!" "But such an evil looking man is rare, so..." "His specialty was a thug, a crook..." "Or a blackmailer, you can say." "Blackmailer?" "Yeah, blackmailer." "You know what?" "He was so good at it." "He was self-nicknamed Actor M, meaning, Maestro and MYUNG." "It should be funny!" "Something else!" "Rumor has it that..." "Once he was kicked out..." "Just because the leading actress told the director to dump him!" "'Cause she didn't want to work with him." "The director asked why... she said she was scared of MYUNG." "And it was true, he almost made their blood so cold... like a wacky psycho who didn't tell reality from films." "He was supposed to rape her in it, so it makes sense." "Any criminal record?" "Nope, he's clean." "And he has a family?" "His only family is his daughter." "His wife and his daughter were victims of a hit-and-run at night, on their way back home from school." "His wife died instantly... and his daughter barely survived." "But he couldn't afford to pay the hospital bills, heavily in debt..." "He's been half-dead for years, no social contacts." "He's been forlorn and poverty-stricken since, no job." "Here I attached the list of the films he was in." "You can watch them for fun." "I say I've done my part." "I suppose there's only one little thing left to cover." "After one more project is completed." "Hey, Actor M!" "Green Fish" "Let's go." "My benefactor, KIM Yang-gil, sends his regards." "You son of a bitch!" "Let me tell you dogs a story." "There are 2 only kinds in the world:" "Purebred and hybrid." "Sometimes, the worst kind of hybrids pretend to be purebred." "It's time I make a move." "It's just my job to make you see what kind of mut you really are." "Who the hell are you guys?" "!" "Sir?" "Your fly's open." " What the?" " Look, I'm not joking." "Are you okay?" "No, I guess not!" "Know thy self." "Don't bet more than you can cover." "Play it safe!" "This god-damn life..." ""Let me share your provocative marketing strategy on your manager."" ""Jang-gil, All-A-Round Consultant"" "Welcome, sir." "To where has my angel gone?" "It'd sure be nice to get a massage from Yeon-ok today..." "Sure be like heaven if a sexy woman was running her fingers all over me." "Can't claim to be a primate if that fails to get your blood pumping." "I'm warning you, but" "If you get my wife involved in this" "I'm not going to just let you be" "What?" "Did I just hear what I think I did?" "So please tell tell tell." "What will you do to me?" "I'm going to do something, something" "What?" "Tell me what!" "Kill me with that razor?" "Right, I will kill you." "I will really kill you" " Oh yeah?" " Kill" "In that case, why not give it a go" "Come on, go on" "What's with you?" "Try it, go on and do it." "Have you ever been to a cage?" "I mean a dogfight?" "It's really exciting, you know." "You know they got their own strategies!" "They first take a wiff for a measure of the other" "If they sense even the slightest weakness, then..." "Wham!" "Bite the neck and hold before tearing 'em up." "But once in a while, the bitten mutt runs wilder..." "To be honest, it's more exciting and thrilling." "It's not over until one of the two is squashed to death." "The thing between dogs, you know." "There are 2 kinds:" "The purebreds and the mutts." "Because they're mutts, mutts think they're something other than a mutt." "There's just one one thing to be done with these mutts." "Made to know that they're mutts" "Once I had a puppy and kicked him whenever I had the chance" "This dog grew up to be huge" "But he never showed me his vicious canine teeth." "Know why?" "Cuz my foot still looked bigger than a elephant's." "Bye." "See you again!" "Gotta say." "You're hula-hoop technique is fantastic!" "You sure you got no back up file for this?" "Oh, no." "So that sorry ass put you on my trail?" "Not really, I was working on the first target." "And along the way, I smelled something else." "And, you don't think about your future?" "If I were you, I'd be split, period." "You must be fed up with a moronic haircutter and..." "Hey!" "Drop it" "Oh, you gave your handle to him?" "Shut up and promise me to keep this secret." "Okay Okay." "But a deal is a deal." "How about we occasionally rendez-vous like this, to Hong Kong next time?" "But you know" "The one you should really worry about is not your husband" "It was an accident." "I didn't mean it." "I was shaving him and" "He, dozing off, suddenly pulled back his head..." "Not knowing he would move that way..." "I know it was my mistake but it just happened." "His neck was a mass of bleeding flesh..." "He was mumbling something, but I couldn't make him out" "All I could make out was that..." "I was dozing off and it just happened?" "Then we strapped him in a respirator." "I heard the ambulance and then someone saying he was a goner!" "As a man of honor, I rushed to the spot!" "He was all but dead by then with blood gushing out his neck when I saw him giving his last parting words to an ER man..." "The barber did nothing wrong, it was my fault..." "I hope you got my words clear." "But I did my best." "I don't know a damn thing about this." "As I'm already busy as a professional life planner..." "I don't work at the barber's shop so..." "But if my husband confessed that he did it" "It must be true, it was an accident." "As you see, he never lies, being honest by nature." "But he killed a person, which means..." "He'll have to put in time, right?" "The defendant, accidentally cut MYUNG into the neck and killed him and..." "AHN is charged of professional negligence resulting in death, but..." "There was no malicious intention... and considering the victim's family isn't pushing for a harsh sentence" "3 years incarceration with 1 year suspended sentence" "How much is this?" " No charge today." " What?" "A gesture from your friendly neighborhood grocer." "Here, wash it down with this, as a set" "Bet you went through hell, huh?" "Bury the past and try to move on, ok?" "Don't you have Haitai milk?" "So so picky are we?" "Haitai milk is laden with gold dust, you know" "But it's Haitai when it comes to milk" "Go ahead." "Maestro Barbering Shop - 3rd Generation " "Honey, it's you" "Should've called you're being let out today" "Are you alright, huh?" "Oh, look at you." "Don't look so good." "Oh gosh..." "Hold on, ok?" "Don't worry about it, honey." "I'll design a brand new life plan for you" "Oh where did I put it?" "Here it is." "Here." "Some girl, in a wheelchair, brought this for you." "From:" "KIM Yang-gil To:" "AHN Chang-jin" "What is it?" "Oh my god, it's money!" "Oh my god!" "By the time you read this letter," "I'd already have crossed that river." "I return your money except for the medical costs for the injured girl." "Please forgive me." ""The Customer Is Always Right"" "Life is a play." "Isn't it?" "Life is such a fun play." "So this is where the actor MYUNG took his leave." "The police seem to have closed the case without as much as a second glance, but" "it still give off a nasty stink, don't it?" "I'm here to share an interesting story on the 2nd project." "I found out something interesting on the way." "Look here!" "What?" "Please... finish me." "Is that really what you want, huh?" "Come on, do me." "No matter how small the role may be, if I can only die while acting" "I'd have nothing more to ask for" "I am sorry about your wife." "And your daughter is getting better, but is still critical..." "Unless she gets the treatment she needs she may be paralyzed from the waist down" "I'm so sorry I have to tell you this but... the account must be current for continued attention" "I believe I've already made this clear" "I'm sorry, but your loan application is incomplete" "You state no place employment or proof of regular income" "Nor a pledge of any security I'm afraid." "I'm in motion pictures." "I'm sorry, what motives do you have?" "I mean, I am a professional actor." "I've appeared in many films." "Oh really?" "My poor daughter desperately needs medical attention." "Please, I am looking at you" "I see that you are" "but I'm afraid I cannot" "Please, cannot you not reconsider this once" "Could you pass the seal?" "Does he think all actors cut from the same dirty rag?" "Don't move, give me your damn finger." "Don't do this Oh, don't do this to me" "A little more time, that's all I ask." "I'll pay you back." "You took from me 'cuz you said you were hurtin' for your precious daughter of yours" "So I gave it to ya 'cuz I felt sorry for ya" "And so you put it to good use" "But I only gave and got nothing in return." "I feel cheated." "It's gotta be a two-way street, no?" "I'll pay you back, really I will" "There's a new flick on the way with me as lead." "When that deal closes" "I'm serious." "I got the lead this time." "I'm here the minute I get paid" "You got the lead?" "You got to believe me, come on." "Get it over it" "I'd have been happy with even minor parts" "But I didn't even get calls with those offers" "How much I loved my being an actor, it's all I got!" "I almost ended up as a worthless, old, pathetic no name actor!" "I'd have gone off the stage, ending this deplorable play of mine..." "Without my daughter who can't stand on her own." "Being her father, I wanted to leave some money for her." "And he got life insurance..." "But if he commits suicide, money doesn't come along." "For her to get the death benefit, he had to die in an accident..." "Or he needed..." "Somebody who could kill him." "That night, I was having a smoke when" "I just happened to witness it." "The girl was carried to ER, turned out fine." "She was a bar girl and..." "Being so drunk, she remembered nothing... not even why was taken to the ER." "But I searched for the driver with the plate number..." "And the moment I found out it's a barber... it came to me" "Whenever I felt sorry for manipulating this barber for my advantage..." "I swore to myself it's for my daughter and my dead wife..." "And that driver, whoever it was, deserved it" "I worked so hard on this project of my life." "I observed him over months and developed a villain character." "It took a lot effort but" "It was so also exhilarating!" "Why?" "This was to be the role of my career!" "It'd be the happiest moment of my life..." "If my script worked perfect and he bought it and killed me!" "With that, my daughter could live in comfort" "And most of all, my heart would be full of joy and thrill as an actor." "I could be a low-rated, no name actor playing only thugs..." "But I'm a maestro of acting myself." "A maestro no matter how small and two-bit a role may be" "Why, when you knew along... didn't you tell me?" "How I could screw his once in a lifetime acting project!" "How I could screw his once in a lifetime acting project!" "And personally, I wanted to see how it all ended." "But I still smell something fishy." "To me, you just don't have it in you to kill and take off like that," "But Yeon-ok, well that's altogether another story." "But the police are still in the dark about the case." "They don't have any clue about the hit-and-runner." "But the bittersweet twist of fate sent a witness in it." "You know who it was?" "It was..." "Me!" "Oh, honey..." "Honey." "It was my fault." "Make sure to tell it to the police." "I was dozing off and it happened." "I'm so sorry, and..." "Thanks." "Actor M used to say that life is a play and... everyone's a star at least in his own life" "Actor M's curtain might have fallen like so, but the act of the barber and his wife appears like it go on a bit longer maybe indefinitely" "Am I right?" "Life Insurance Policy" "I love you, smile, Dad." "Sir?" "Your fly is open." " What's wrong with you?" " Really, look" "Sir?" "Your fly is open." " What the?" " Take a look, it's loose!" "Damn!" "What a maestro!" "February 1997, 9 years ago." "Sorry, Chang-jin, I am late." "No, you're right on time." "Let's go in, the play's about to start." "Title:" "Contrabass Starring MYUNG"