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| Hangul | 흑수선 |
| RR | Heugsuseon |
| MR | Hŭksusŏn |
| Directed by | Bae Chang-Ho |
| Produced by | Jeong Tae-Won |
| Written by | Bae Chang-ho |
| Starring | Lee Jung-jae Ahn Sung-kee Lee Mi-yeon Jeong Jun-ho |
| Cinematography | Kim Yun-su |
| Distributed by | Cinema Service |
| Release date(s) | South Korea: November 16, 2001 |
| Running time | 106 min. |
| Language | Korean |
The Last Witness (흑수선 Heugsuseon) is a 2001 South Korean thriller film directed by Bae Chang-ho and starring Lee Jung-jae, Ahn Sung-kee and Lee Mi-yeon. The Last Witness is based upon the novel of the same name by Kim Seong-jong.[1]
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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 il-fated lovers.[2]
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