After an eight-year prison sentence for murder Tajuro chooses to start a new life as a barber in a small town which offers perfect isolation from his fears. As a favour to the town priest he agrees to help a young woman with a troubled past by offering her job as his assistant. However when he least expects it her past is about to colllide with his. Winner of the 1997 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Award-winning drama from director Shohei Imamura. Takura (Koji Yakusho) murders his wife after finding her in bed with another man. After his release from prison, he takes a job as a hairdresser in a quiet town, and isolates himself from the rest of the community. Seemingly content to spend the rest of his life alone, his routine is disturbed by a young woman who has her own demons to battle. The film won the Cannes Palme d'Or in 1997.
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