Image from Director Bong Joon Ho’s Okja

NETFLIX Original Film Okja To Premiere on 28 June 2017

Image from Director Bong Joon Ho’s Okja
Enthusiastic CEO Lucy Mirando (TILDA SWINTON) unveils her rebranding campaign of the Mirando Corporation in the Netflix original film OKJA, from genre-defying writer/director Bong Joon Ho.

Director Bong Joon Ho’s Okja is a new Netflix original film that stars Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Giancarlo Esposito, Steven Yuen, Lily Collins and newcomer An Seo Hyun. Okja is a drama about a girl who must keep a powerful company from abducting her pal, a gentle beast.

Image from Director Bong Joon Ho’s Okja
Zoologist, TV personality and face of the Mirando Corporation, Dr. Johnny Wilcox (JAKE GYLLENHAAL) in the Netflix original film OKJA, from genre-defying writer/director Bong Joon Ho.

For 10 idyllic years, young Mija (An Seo Hyun) has been the constant companion who takes care of Okja, a massive animal and an even bigger friend in her mountain home in South Korea. Her family-owned multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themsleves and transports her to New York, where image obsessed and self-promoting CEO Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton) has big plans for Mija’s dearest friend.

Image from Director Bong Joon Ho’s Okja
Continuing her adventure to reclaim her best friend, young Mija (AN SEO HYUN) simultaneously takes on big business and the big city – both for the first time – in the Netflix original film OKJA, from
genre-defying writer/director Bong Joon Ho.

 

Mija sets out to rescue her friend and that journey becomes complicated when she crosses paths with disparate groups of capitalists, demonstrators and consumers, each battling to control the fate of her friend. Bong Joon Ho (Snowpiercer, The Host) begins with the gentlest of premises – the bond between man and animal – and ultimately creates a distinct and layered vision of the world that addresses the animal inside us all.

 

 

Look out for it when it premieres exclusively on Netflix on 28 June 2017.

 

 

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