Okja 2017

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Okja is a 2017 South Korean-American action-adventure film directed by Bong Joon-ho and co-written by Bong and Jon Ronson. The film stars an ensemble cast headed by South Korean child actress Ahn Seo-hyun alongside Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano and Jake Gyllenhaal.

The film competed for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.^[] It was released on Netflix on June 28, 2017.

Plot

In 2007, Lucy Mirando succeeds her controversial father as CEO of the Mirando Corporation. She announces that a new species of 'Superpig' has been discovered, and the Mirando Corporation has been breeding them to eventually be used for meat. Twenty-six of the best superpigs will be sent to locations around the world and in a period of ten years, one will be returned to New York and crowned the winner.

Ten years later, a 14 year old girl named Mija lives happily in the South Korean countryside with her grandfather and their superpig, Okja, of whom she is extremely close with. Her grandfather received Okja from the Mirando Corporation as part of the Superpig competition, and close tabs have been kept on Okja's growth, metabolism and vital signs by company employees via a 'black box' tagged in her ear.