Aunt Tiger



Aunt Tiger is an animated short that is adapted from a folkloric tale in Taiwan. It is an episode part of the anthology series "Animated Tales of the World".

Summary
The story tells the tale of an old tiger that wanders in a cave and discovers a magical spell. The spell tells him not only to become a human, but how to assume the any shape of human he desires. After completing the instructions, the tiger realizes that he still has a tail. The tiger makes a plan to capture and eat the three children in order to get rid of the tail after reading a spell on another part of the cave's wall. The tiger was able to capture two children by tricking them in his human disguise, but the third child is not able to be captured by the tiger, still in his human form. The tiger tries to disguise himself as the girl's aunt to the girl who is unable to be captured in which the girl finds out that the aunt is actually the tiger. The girl reveals his true identity by chasing him to the cave and rescuing the children whom the tiger captured and defeats the hideous tiger.

Voice Cast

 * Bill Nighy - The Tiger


 * Liz Smith - Third aunt


 * Ève Karpf - Mother, Cowherd, Baby


 * Sophie Duniam - A-Mei


 * Polly Duniam - A-Xiang


 * Michael McShane - Narrator