The Last Witness is a 2001

2001 in film

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

 South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

n thriller film directed by Bae Chang-ho and starring Lee Jung-jae

Lee Jung-jae

Lee Jung-jae is a South Korean actor.- Career :Lee Jung-jae, apart from being a top star in film and TV, also works as a highly successful fashion model. One year after his debut on television in 1993, Lee was cast in his first film, a feature by Bae Chang-ho. His breakthrough would come in late...

, Ahn Sung-kee and Lee Mi-yeon

Lee Mi-yeon

Lee Mi-yeon is a South Korean actress.- Filmography :-Awards:*2008 Chunsa Film Art Awards: Best Actress *2007 Andre Kim Best Star Awards: Best Star...

. The Last Witness is based upon the novel of the same name by Kim Seong-jong.

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

Korean War

The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

. 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

Geoje POW Camp

Geoje-do POW camp is the Korean War relic located in Geoje at the southmost of Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.-History:Geoje-do POW camp was built following the break out of the Korean War in 1950....

 on Geoje Island leads Oh to Han, a former North Korean soldier living in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, and a final, tragic resolution for two il-fated lovers.

Cast

• Lee Jung-jae
  Lee Jung-jae
  Lee Jung-jae is a South Korean actor.- Career :Lee Jung-jae, apart from being a top star in film and TV, also works as a highly successful fashion model. One year after his debut on television in 1993, Lee was cast in his first film, a feature by Bae Chang-ho. His breakthrough would come in late...
  
   as Detective Oh
• Ahn Sung-kee as Hwang-seok
• Lee Mi-yeon
  Lee Mi-yeon
  Lee Mi-yeon is a South Korean actress.- Filmography :-Awards:*2008 Chunsa Film Art Awards: Best Actress *2007 Andre Kim Best Star Awards: Best Star...
  
   as Ji-hye
• Jeong Jun-ho as Han Dong-ju
• Lee Gi-Yeong
  Lee Gi-yeong
  Lee Ki-young is a South Korean actor. Notable roles include Love Me Not , Marathon and A Bittersweet Life , in which he plays a gangster.- External links :* at film2.co.kr...
  
  as Yang