Directed by:
Kyoo-jang JoScreenplay:
Young-jong LeeComposer:
Yeong-jin MokCast:
Seong-min Lee, Sang-ho Kim, Kyeong Jin, Shi-yang Kwak, Jeong-hwa Bae, Seung-hwan Shin, Yoo-min Jeong, Je-wook Yeon, Young-hee Hwang, Ja-young Kim, Ji-hoo Park (more)Plots(1)
Han Sang-hoon is an ordinary insurance claims investigator who moves his family into an upper-middle-class neighborhood. After a soju-filled night of celebrating with his colleagues, he comes home to pleas of help nearby. Outside, a serial killer with a weapon in hand towers over his victim and takes note of the lone light in Sang-hoon’s living room. Overwrought with conflict, Sang-hoon reluctantly realizes he is the primary witness to a heinous crime. Meanwhile, the neighborhood is up in arms from the negative attention, more worried about reputation than justice. Sang-hoon wishes it would all go away, even the police, but what happens when the killer is tying up loose ends, including Sang-hoon and his family? Can Han Sang-hoon turn a blind eye then? Using the personal to take apart the social, director Jo Kyu-Jang’s taut thriller takes on how the “bystander effect” and society cloud our sense of justice, asking: how will an ordinary salaryman deal with guilt and paranoia? The Witness is less about solving a crime, and more about the consequences of saving face amidst it. (San Diego Asian Film Festival)
(more)Cast
![Seong-min Lee](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/011/160011844_7f21c9.jpg)
Seong-min Lee
South Korea
Best movies:
Marathon (2005)
The Attorney (2013)
Misaeng: Incomplete Life (2014) (series)
![Sang-ho Kim](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/451/161451032_4ddb7f.jpg)
Sang-ho Kim
South Korea
Best movies:
Hope (2013)
City Hunter (2011) (series)
The Beauty Inside (2015)
![Kyeong Jin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/301/160301463_d0b128.jpg)
Kyeong Jin
South Korea
Best movies:
Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022) (series)
Gu Family Book (2013) (series)
My Little Bride (2004)
![Shi-yang Kwak](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/365/160365250_8a3ed6.jpg)
Shi-yang Kwak
South Korea
Best movies:
Chicago Typewriter (2017) (series)
Night Flight (2014)
Alice (2020) (series)
![Jeong-hwa Bae](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/984/161984759_4747af.jpg)
Jeong-hwa Bae
South Korea
Best movies:
Voice (2017) (series)
El Condor Pasa (2013)
![Seung-hwan Shin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/053/160053876_232ab3.jpg)
Seung-hwan Shin
South Korea
Best movies:
Lover's Concerto (2002)
Vagabond (2019) (series)
Midas (2011) (series)
![Yoo-min Jeong](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/572/162572925_fa2741.jpg)
Yoo-min Jeong
South Korea
Best movies:
Perfect Marriage Revenge (2023) (series)
Reply 1988 (2015) (series)
Love Clinique (2012)
![Je-wook Yeon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/579/160579962_dd33b1.jpg)
Je-wook Yeon
South Korea
Best movies:
Voice (2017) (series)
Missing Nine (2017) (series)
Public Enemy Returns (2008)
Young-hee Hwang
South Korea
Best movies:
Defendant (2017) (series)
The Package (2017) (series)
Mother (2009)
Ja-young Kim
South Korea
Best movies:
Maundy Thursday (2006)
Poetry (2010)
The Swindlers (2017)
![Ji-hoo Park](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/723/163723535_87a385.jpg)
Ji-hoo Park
South Korea
Best movies:
Little Women (2022) (series)
Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2016)
House of Hummingbird (2018)
![Jong-hak Son](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/133/161133293_fbe4c2.jpg)
Jong-hak Son
South Korea
Best movies:
Misaeng: Incomplete Life (2014) (series)
The Golden Spoon (2022) (series)
Search: WWW (2019) (series)
Hak-seon Kim
South Korea
Best movies:
Signal (2016) (series)
Innocent Witness (2019)
The Golden Spoon (2022) (series)
Ji-hyun Woo
South Korea
Best movies:
Search: WWW (2019) (series)
Kim Ji-young: Born 1982 (2019)
I Can Speak (2017)
![Sung-kyun Kim](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/112/160112186_c1a69a.jpg)
Sung-kyun Kim
South Korea
Best movies:
I Hear Your Voice (2013) (series)
12.12: The Day (2023)
Neighbor (2012)
![Seong-geun Park](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/103/160103248_a1a7cb.jpg)
Seong-geun Park
South Korea
Best movies:
The Attorney (2013)
Stranger (2017) (series)
Always (2011)
Chae-ik Park
South Korea
Best movies:
Once in a Summer (2006)
Forgotten (2017)
Open City (2008)
Jang-yoo Lee
South Korea
Best movies:
Silenced (2011)
Garden of the Wind (2008) (series)
1987: When the Day Comes (2017)
Jae-gwang Jung
South Korea
Best movies:
It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020) (series)
Nevertheless, (2021) (series)
The Roundup (2022)