| The Last Witness | |||||||||||||
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| Director: | Bae Chang-ho | ||||||||||||
| Producer: | Jeong Tae-won | ||||||||||||
| Starring: | Lee Jung-jae Ahn Sung-ki Lee Mi-yeon | ||||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Kim Yun-su | ||||||||||||
| Distributor: | Cinema Service | ||||||||||||
| Runtime: | 106 minutes | ||||||||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||||||||
The Last Witness is a 2001 South Korean thriller film written and directed by Bae Chang-ho, starring Lee Jung-jae, Ahn Sung-ki and Lee Mi-yeon. It is based on the novel of the same name by Kim Seong-jong, and is the second adaptation of the book, the first being in 1980.[1]
A political prisoner, Hwang-seok is released after 50 years of solitary confinement. A day later, a body with stab wounds is recovered from a harbor. Detective Oh investigates the death and determines the body is that of Yang, a former soldier. Discovering a diary amongst Yang's possessions, Oh follows a trail of clues to a blind antique dealer, Ji-hye. It transpires that it was Yang who was responsible for the imprisonment of Hwang-seok, a suspected communist sympathizer in the Korean War. This makes Hwang-seok the prime suspect for the murder of Yang. But not all is as it seems, and a series of flashbacks back to the dark days of the Korean War and the infamous Geoje POW Camp on Geoje Island leads Oh to Han, a former North Korean soldier living in Japan, and a final, tragic resolution for two ill-fated lovers.[1]