The Last Witness

1980·South Korea·158 min.
The Last Witness
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Detective Oh discovers a secret while he investigates Yang Dal-su's murder case, with Attorney Kim Jung-yub. Sohn Suk-jin leaves a treasure map to his daughter Ji-hye when he faces death wiping out communist guerrillas hiding in Jiri mountain. Captain of the communist commandos, Kang Man-ho rapes Ji-hye and she gets pregnant. Hwang Ba-wu helps her and they run from the communists. They get married and look for the treasure together. Ba-wu stabs Dong-ju and turns himself in but Dal-su makes it look like Dong-ju is dead in order to take treasure and Ji-hye from Ba-wu. Jung-yub gets Ba-wu out after 20 years. Ba-wu finds out that Ji-hye's son Tae-young was the one who killed, he and Ji-hye commit suicide to protect him.

DirectorLee Doo-yong
ScreenwriterKim Sang-jung
Original titleChoihui jeungin