A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja.A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja.A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja.
- Awards
- 7 wins & 14 nominations
Ahn Seo-hyun
- Mija
- (as An Seo Hyun)
Byun Hee-Bong
- Hee Bong
- (as Byun Heebong)
Yun Je-mun
- Mundo Park
- (as Yoon Je Moon)
Choi Woo-sik
- Kim
- (as Woo Shik Choi)
Choi Hee-Seo
- Choi Female Interpreter
- (as Moon Choi)
Lee Bong-ryun
- Receptionist
- (as Bongryun Lee)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe Animal Liberation Front is actually a real organization that strives to free captured animals while economicaly harming 'big companies' that profit from the abuse.
- GoofsThere is a mistranslation on the English subtitles when K played by Steven Yeun is about to jump out of the truck. According to the subtitles, his parting words to Mija are "Mija! Try learning English. It opens new doors!" What he actually says is "Mija! Also, my name is Koo Soon-bum." It's a flagrant mistranslation - but one that would only be apparent to those who can speak both languages. Moreover, the mistranslation is a clever subversion of the supremacy of English. The subtitle is a command to learn English - something that every Korean student has heard throughout her life - but to actually understand what K is saying, you would have to know Korean. There's an added layer of comedy to the name itself, which has the whiff of the old country about it: "Koo Soon-bum" is sort of like a white man saying his name is "Buford Attaway." As Yeun said in an interview, "When he says 'Koo Soon-bum,' it's funny to you if you're Korean, because that's a dumb name. There's no way to translate that. That's like, the comedy drop-off, the chasm between countries."
- Crazy creditsThere is a post-credit scene.
- SoundtracksHarvest For The World
Written by Ernie Isley (as E. Isley), Marvin Isley (as M. Isley), O'Kelly Isley (as O. Isley), Ronald Isley (as R. Isley), Rudolph Isley (as R. Isley), Chris Jasper (as C. Jasper)
Performed by The Isley Brothers
Courtesy of Epic Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
Featured review
Sort of like a too realistic Disney film
Beautifully crafted tale of a little girl in South Korea who has been with a specially created, slow growing, eventually very large pig, Okja, for ten years, just about her whole life. They live in the mountains alone with her father and Okja is her constant companion with an unbreakable bond. This idyllic life cannot go on as, unknown to her, Okja has been bred and raised for food and those who actually own her, plus many more, have come to claim her. The rest is sort of an adventure of the little girl trying to get Okja back from New York to her beloved mountains against seemingly insurmountable odds. It's a Disney tale at heart with some ugly and unpleasant scenes involving the realities of raising stock. The scenes of the girl with Okja alone are amazingly well filmed. Seo-hyun Ahn as the girl gives a fine, honest performance, but there are much bigger names in this such as Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano and Giancarlo Esposito who provide lesser performances. Swinton & Gyllenhaal have obviously been asked to play way over the top and both are more annoying than anything else. Dano has little to do but be sweet and sincere and Esposito is well, Esposito. The whole thing is a mixed bag. It's realistic, it's unrealistic, it's sweet, it's ugly. The extremely imaginative Bong Joon Ho filmed this in between Snowpiercer and Parasite, both much better films, but all three do exhibit his creativity, originality, versatility and talent. However, I don't know what audience he was aiming for with this. It's seems like a children's film made for adults or something like that?!
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- Sep 12, 2022
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Siêu Lợn Okja
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $50,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $2,049,823
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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