The Old Barber 剃头匠

[Flying Pigeon]

Hi,

I remember reading about this movie here. I think Roddy had watched it and wrote about it. But I can't find the post. I did a search but found posts about condom commercials and how to find beautiful foreign women in Beijing; interesting topics, but not quite what I'm after.

Thanks in advance for directing me to that thread.

Dean

[roddy]

Doesn't ring any bells with me I'm afraid. I do remember (I think) posting about a documentary called 老头 or something. Nothing about barbers though.

[Flying Pigeon]

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the mix-up.

[PhilipLean]

I know this thread is old, but I have found the film what you were looking for.

The old barber.

I used 剃头匠to search on Tudou.

There appear to be four parts to the film.

The film starts with a scene of him shaving a person.

In part 4 the old man starts of talking about being born in Peking as it was called then, and he wanted to be a kung fu actor in Chinese Opera but his parents forbade it so he became a barber.

The film has Chinese and English subtitles and because he speaks slowly it is very easy to pick the words. Works great in SMPlayer, so useful for learning.

Parts

1 - http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/V1jETLAKPuE/

2 - http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/jLf_6f-FxNQ/

3 - http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/VTHQnVj9kZc/

4 - http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/soTxd20k5dY/

[Flying Pigeon]

Unfortunately, the tudou links don't work anymore. I just finished watching it here. This is one of my favorite Chinese films.