{"id":1176,"date":"2008-08-10T07:18:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T21:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/08\/10\/update-chaw\/"},"modified":"2008-08-28T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T23:48:13","slug":"update-chaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/08\/10\/update-chaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Chaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifijapan.com\/articles\/2008\/08\/08\/mutant-boar-terrorizes-south-korea-in-chaw\/\" target=\"_blank\">SciFi Japan<\/a> has a detailed article on the South Korean giant mutant boar movie, <strong>Chaw<\/strong> (South Korean-[<em>in post-production, 2009<\/em>]; dir. Jeong-won Shin), which the Backbrain introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/19\/new-south-korean-giants\/\" target=\"_blank\">a while back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the synopsis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mysterious, gruesome deaths plague Sammae-ri, a peaceful little village in the Jirisan National Park of South Korea. Among the victims is the granddaughter of Cheon Il-man (Jang Hang-seon), a native of Sammae-ri and a professional hunter. Police cannot find any clues and there is no progress in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Then Kim (Eom Tae-woong), a recently relegated police officer from Seoul who is now partnered with lead detective Shin (Pak Hyeok-kwon), finds out that the killer is none other than a wild boar. The news attracts many hunters from all over the Korean peninsula, but the situation quickly goes from bad to worse, causing counterattacks from the wild boar.<\/p>\n<p>In this chaos, Kim\u2019s mother (who suffers from dementia) goes missing. Kim forms a team with Shin, Cheon, a hunter named Baek (Yoon Je-moon) and zoo-ecology researcher Soo-ryeon (Jeong Yu-mi) to track the wild boar\u2019s hoofmarks and face the deadly beast on its home turf.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article gives production credits, general information and snippets from interviews with the director and other members of the crew.<\/p>\n<p>The creature itself is described as being created via &#8220;a computer generated giant wild boar and an animatronic version which stands 2 meters tall and 4 meters long (approximately 6 and a half feet tall and 13 feet long)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes that &#8220;the movie\u2019s title CHAW apparently has multiple meanings. It is a variant of the English word \u2018chew\u2019 and is defined as \u2018to bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate\u2019, while in the Korean dialect of Gyeonggi and Chungcheong provinces it also refers to \u2018a trap\u2019.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SciFi Japan has a detailed article on the South Korean giant mutant boar movie, Chaw (South Korean-[in post-production, 2009]; dir. Jeong-won Shin), which the Backbrain introduced a while back. Here is the synopsis: Mysterious, gruesome deaths plague Sammae-ri, a peaceful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/08\/10\/update-chaw\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}