The Tiger

[Machine Translation] Is killing the only instinct? Choi Min-sik and Ren Ohsugi, the leading actors of Japan and South Korea, are to play together for the first time in a miraculous collaboration! The genius of "The New World" depicts the death struggle between a human and the last tiger in Joseon in this historical spectacle action film! --The year is 1925. In 1925 A.D., Jeong Mangdok, a legendary man who was said to be the best hunter in Joseon but gave up his gun after an incident, lives a quiet life with his son deep in the rugged Jiri Mountains. Meanwhile, local hunters, under the leadership of the military, are eager to kill the one-eyed giant tiger, the "God of the Mountains" and the "King of Korean Tigers" of Mt. However, the humans lose their lives one after another in the face of its intellect beyond human understanding and its strong wild body. The army and the hunting party, hoping to catch the "mountain god" before the winter, when the mountains are snowed in and hunting becomes more difficult, decide to conduct an unprecedented large-scale hunting operation, deploying a large number of men and ammunition. Mandok warns them that they must not offend the "Mountain God" and stubbornly refuses their request, but before long he finds himself engulfed in the vortex of the fierce battle...

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殺戮だけが本能か。チェ・ミンシク×大杉漣、日韓を代表する名優たちが奇跡の初競演! 『新しき世界』の鬼才が朝鮮最後の虎と人間の死闘を描く歴史スペクタクル・アクション! ――西暦1925年。朝鮮最高の猟師と謳われながらも、ある事件をきっかけに銃を捨てた"伝説の男"チョン・マンドクは、険しい智異(チリ)山の奥深く、息子と2人ひっそりと暮らしていた。一方、軍主導のもと〈害獣駆除〉に熱を上げる地元の猟師たちは、智異山の"山の神"とも"朝鮮虎の王様"とも畏れられる隻眼の大虎を仕留めようと躍起になっていた。しかし、人智を超えた知性と強靭な野生の肉体を前に次々と命を落とす人間たち。山が雪に閉ざされ、狩りが難しくなる本格的な冬を前に、なんとか"山の神"を仕留めたい軍と猟師団は、大量の人員と弾薬を投入し、いまだかつてない大規模な捕獲作戦の決行を決める。彼らに協力を要請されたマンドクは「"山の神"を怒らせてはならない」と彼らに警告を発し、頑なにその求めを固辞していたが、いつしかその激しい戦いの渦に飲み込まれていくのであった・・・。