The Last Witness (1980)
Detective Oh goes searching for the murderer of Yang, a small-time brewer bludgeoned to death by a quiet riverside with no witnesses, no apparent motive. As he wanders about the winter landscape of South Jeolla Province and Seoul, he finds himself caught in a story of treachery, rape and murder.
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Crappy film
It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Blistering performances.
Too good this Last Witness where it merges perfectly the detective 80 years and the tragedy of war in Korea in the 50s through the perfect and spot-flashback. This film is really long with a duration of 2 hours and 35 minutes but it did not bother me in the least, or bored, or rather the duration is justified to tell the most of a storyline in my view compelling, well- structured, well-thought out and adding the dual audio commentary I shot (in two days) more than 7 hours of film The film recently released in question in full after 80 years was heavily censored (censorship because of the then political hit and always mutilate the value of movies like this) and considered one of the best thrillers of Korean cinema, Then the finish is perfect indeed: Detective Oh after completing boldly, carefully and with much wealth his investigation decides to commit suicide, not because of the voice of his conscience after killing his revolver with his assailants, and not because he is accused by his own colleagues use excessive force, gesture that would definitely lead to prison, I think that the ultimate gesture was sprung from the fact that the protagonist now tired of living in a superficial and corrupt rotten world, dominated by violence (in the film there it is really pretty) and the filthy lucre suicide was the only solution, also as shown in the film detective Oh was also a widower, so I think that loneliness gripped him Now I'll have to retrieve the remake released in 2001, although already I know that you will surely and remotely comparable to the original.