The General’s Mustache - 1968 - 6/10
AKA - Janggun-ui Suyeom // 장군의 수염

Cheol-hun is dead, police have to decide between suicide and murder.
Painter, photographer, lately novelist, although he hasn’t got beyond the title (see above).
Describing the plot to others, they decide his story is akin to a comic.

There are conflicting testimonies from neighbors and coworkers.
Police also speculate, and toss up various theories.
Gradually, however, they zero in on his live-in girlfriend, Sin-hye.

Cheol lived in a fantasy world, she said, and was a thirty-year-old child.
The plot, like the dead man, is an enigma. There is a back history of the Korean War.
Slow, talky, a puzzle that reorganizes itself throughout.