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The Tiger (also known as The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale, ; lit. "Big Tiger") is a 2015 South Korean period action drama film about a hunter prepared to kill the last tiger of Joseon.

In Japanese-occupied Korea in 1925, revered hunter Chun Man-duk lives with his teenage son, Seok, in a hut near Mount Jirisan. Following a tragic accident years ago in which he killed his beloved wife while hunting for a large male tiger to financially provide for his family, he has retired his rifle, sworn off hunting, and become a humble herb gatherer among his cherished mountains. The Japanese governor-general overseeing the occupation gathers tiger pelts as a hobby to display cultural dominance over the Korean people, and soon becomes obsessed with killing possibly the last remaining tiger in Korea, an enormous, one-eyed male that lives on the mountain; he has killed scores of hunters and evaded capture many times, including Chun Man-duk and his former hunting companions. The tiger is known locally in hushed tones as the Mountain Lord ( ; ), and locals who revere it fear that its demise will allow unchecked numbers of wolves and boars, thereby upsetting the ecological balance. Gu-kyung, Chun Man-duk's former hunting partner, is the resolute but ruthless leader of a band of Korean hunters that continually attempt to track and kill the Mountain Lord for the bounty, including by killing its mate and two cubs while using the latter for bait.

It is revealed that years ago, Man-duk mortally wounded the Mountain Lord's mother when she leaped at him as he neared her kill to defend her two nearby cubs. Man-duk spares the one-eyed cub and its sibling by intervening against the more junior hunter Gu-kyung, who delivered the killing shot on their mother. He advises Gu-kyung to leave them to their fate, allowing the mountain to decide if they are to survive. Man-duk, however, secretly relocates the cubs to a safe den, though the one-eyed cub's sibling dies not long afterward. The surviving cub grows up to become the Mountain Lord.

In the present time, Seok loves a girl in town, and secretly joins one of Gu-kyung's hunts in aspiration of earning a bounty sufficient to convince her father to allow them to marry; during the hunt, the Mountain Lord killed all the rioters whose intentions were to lure him out of hiding. When confronted as the last man standing, Seok wounds the Mountain Lord but is himself mortally wounded. The Mountain Lord brings Seok's body to Man-duk's cabin after having fought off a pack of wolves who dragged Seok to their den to feast on his remains.

Mountain Lord Tiger has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.