Chaw (film)
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| Directed by | Shin Jung-won |
| Produced by | Park Kyung-duk |
| Written by | Kim Yung-chul Shin Jung-won |
| Starring |
Uhm Tae-woong Jung Yu-mi Jang Hang-sun Yoon Je-moon Park Hyuk-kwon |
| Music by | Kim Jun-seong |
| Cinematography | Kim Yung-chul |
| Edited by | Choi Jae-geun |
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Production
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Soo Jack Films
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| Distributed by |
Lotte Entertainment Finecut |
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Running time
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122 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Budget | US$7 million |
| Box office | US$10.8 million |
Chaw (Hangul: 차우; RR: Chau; MR: Ch‘au), released in the United States as Chawz, is a 2009 South Korean film about a mutant killer pig wreaking havoc on a small mountain town, and the ragtag team of five who set out to stop the beast. The feature subverts the monster genre into a witty, suspenseful black comedy mixed with horror, adventure, and a healthy dose of camp.
The Korean title is pronounced "chow", which means "trap" in Chungcheong dialect.
The quiet town of Sammaeri near Mount Jiri has been crime-free for a decade until now. Bodies of villagers begin turning up, making the village leaders nervous just ahead of an organic food fair expected to be a financial windfall. Chun Il-man (Jang Hang-sun), whose granddaughter was one of the victims, is sure that a man-killing boar is behind the crimes. He joins forces with detective Shin (Park Hyuk-kwon) and Kim Kang-soo (Uhm Tae-woong), a reassigned cop from Seoul whose mother has gone missing in the woods. With Byun Soo-ryun (Jung Yu-mi), a biologist studying wild animals, and glory-seeking hunter Baek Man-bae (Yoon Je-moon) on the team to fight the giant killer beast, the five start up the mountain to face their enemy.
Director Shin Jung-won said his film adopted a typical Hollywood B movie monster narrative to tackle environmental issues, particularly the serious destruction inflicted on Korea's ecology. He said Korea had never had a film dealing with real-life killer creatures like Alligator and Anaconda and was "intrigued by the idea of a familiar animal attacking and killing humans and wanted to create something out of this unexpectedness. But most of all, I wanted something funny and unique."
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