Okja (2017)

Okja – In 2007, self-styled ‘environmentalist’ Lucy Mirando becomes CEO of the Mirando Corporation, succeeding her twin sister Nancy. She announces that they have been breeding a special kind of “super pig”. The twenty-six produced specimens are sent to farmers in different locations around the world, and ten years later, one of them will be crowned the winner of a competition to breed the best pig. In 2017, a young girl named Mija lives in South Korea with her grandfather and their super pig, Okja. They are visited by Mirando’s spokesperson and zoologist Dr. Johnny Wilcox, who declares Okja the best super pig and announces they will take her to New York City. Mija’s grandfather presents her with a gold pig and explains to her that he saved up money to buy the solid gold item to replace Okja when she was taken away. Devastated, Mija runs away to Seoul to find Okja, where she sees her as she is being loaded onto a truck. Mija chases down the truck but it is intercepted by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). In the resulting chaos, Mija and Okja run away but are eventually saved by the ALF, led by Jay. Jay uses another ALF member, K, as a translator to tell Mija that they plan to put a recording device in Okja’s ear and let her be re-captured by the Mirando corporation to show how they mistreat their animals. Mija tells them to return her to the mountains but K tells the group that Mija is in agreement with their plan. They abandon her, and Okja is recaptured.. less

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120 min
IMDb: 7.30
Country: United States, South Korea
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
Release: 2017-05-19
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Production: Plan B Entertainment, Lewis Pictures, Kate Street Picture Company
Cast: Giancarlo Esposito, Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Devon Bostick, Lily Collins, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, Daniel Henshall, Je mun Yun, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Shirley Henderson, Woo sik Choi, Seo Hyun Ahn, Michael Mitton, Moon Choi, Nancy Amelia Bell, Kyung ho Yoon, Jeong eun Lee, Jin seok Kwak, Hee Bong Byun, Ji Hoon Park, Bong ryeon Lee, Jiwoong Jang, Sheena Kamal, Colm Hill, Jose Carias, Jaein Kim, Kiseon Park, Wan gi Jo, Han Seong Yong less