He learns that the brewer, Yang Dal-soo, helped capture four guerrillas and kill nine during the Korean War.

Ji-hye and Bau survived and were interrogated, while Man-ho served a two-year sentence and went on to live in isolation.

Ji-hye recalls giving birth to her baby, named Taeyoung, and living happily with Bau.

However, when they wanted to find out the fortune on the map left to them by Man-ho, they had seek assistance from Yang to access Jirisan.

Believing the Ji-hye could not be the suspect, Byung-ho returns to Munchang, where an elder tells him that his son Yongjae had seen Dong-ju alive.

The Last Witness is widely reported to have been censored due to its sensitive content with between forty minutes and an hour of footage cut from its original length; this is attributed to political repression by the Chun Doo Hwan regime which seized power the year before and perpetrated the Gwangju Massacre six months before the film's release.

The Archive released a Blu-ray disc in 2017 with commentary from Lee as well as directors Park Chan-wook and Oh Seung-uk, and critic Inuhiko Yomota.