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| image = The Last Witness (2001) movie poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical poster

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| director = Bae Chang-ho

| producer = Jeong Tae-won

| writer = Bae Chang-ho

| starring = Lee Jung-jae
Ahn Sung-ki
Lee Mi-yeon

| based_on =

| music =

| cinematography = Kim Yun-su

| distributor = Cinema Service

| released =

| runtime = 106 minutes

| country = South Korea

| language = Korean

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'The Last Witness' is a 2001 South Korean thriller film directed by Bae Chang-ho and 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.Leong, 2002, pp. 72–73

Plot



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.

Cast



* Lee Jung-jae as Detective Oh

* Ahn Sung-ki as Hwang-seok

* Lee Mi-yeon as Ji-hye

* Jung Joon-ho as Han Dong-ju

* Lee Ki-young as Yang

See also



*Cinema of Korea

Notes



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