The Last Witness
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Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever: The 1970s
May 15 - 26
Lee Doo-yong’s towering masterpiece turns a sprawling procedural about a detective tracking a killer into a full-scale excavation of Korea’s buried history.
Straddling the end of the 1970s and the dawn of a new military regime, Lee Doo-yong’s The Last Witness turns a murder case into a full-scale excavation of Korea’s buried history. Detective Oh (Hah Myung-joong), tracking the killing of a brewery owner, hits the road across wintry landscapes and remote villages, uncovering a chain of Korean War–era atrocities, partisan guerrillas, betrayals, and cover-ups that bind the present to crimes long suppressed. Better known at the time for hard-edged action films, Lee crafts a patient, sprawling procedural that also plays like a bleak road movie, its snowbound vistas and austere compositions giving the journey an almost existential weight. Once seen only in heavily cut form, The Last Witness now emerges in restoration as a towering masterpiece of Korean cinema: genre turned into a searing allegory of a society built on unacknowledged ghosts. Restored in 2016 by the Korean Film Archive.
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