Okja (/ˈoʊkdʒə/; Korean: 옥자) is a 2017 science-fantasy action-adventure film directed by Bong Joon-ho with a screenplay by Bong and Jon Ronson from a story by Bong. The film is about a young girl who raised a genetically modified "super pig" (the titular Okja), and, after she is taken to the United States, goes on a mission to rescue her from mistreatment at the hands of the meat industry. An international co-production of South Korea and the United States, it stars an ensemble cast headed by child actor Ahn Seo-hyun, along with Byun Hee-bong, Yoon Je-moon, Choi Woo-shik, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins, Shirley Henderson, Daniel Henshall, Devon Bostick, Giancarlo Esposito, and Jake Gyllenhaal.
The film competed for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.[4][5] It was released on Netflix on June 28, 2017. The film received positive reviews from critics.
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Okja (/ˈoʊkdʒə/; Korean: 옥자) is a 2017 science-fantasy action-adventure film directed by Bong Joon-ho with a screenplay by Bong and Jon Ronson from a story...
Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Yeun has also appeared in the films Okja (2017), Sorry to Bother You (2018), The Humans (2021) and Nope (2022). He...
Nora Okja Keller (born 22 December 1966, in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean American author. Her 1997 breakthrough work of fiction, Comfort Woman, and...
complicated, vulnerable edges." Collins was cast in the Netflix drama film Okja directed by Bong Joon-ho. The film competed for the Palme d'Or in the main...
Wartime (2009), Meek's Cutoff (2010), Anna Karenina (2012), Filth (2013), Okja (2017), Never Steady, Never Still (2017), and Stan & Ollie (2018). Henderson...
Steven Yeun and Lily Collins, in the action-adventure feature film Okja (2017). Okja competed for the Palme d'or in Official Competition at the Cannes...
(2001), Last Holiday (2006), Rabbit Hole (2010), The Jungle Book (2016), Okja (2017), and Stargirl (2020). Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito was born...
Vanity Fair. Retrieved August 12, 2022. Flood, Alex (July 12, 2017). "'Okja' interview: Lily Collins on Cannes, working with Paul Dano and acting to...
With Bong Joon-ho, Ronson wrote the screenplay for the 2017 Netflix film Okja. Ronson and his wife Elaine have one son. Ronson is Jewish and is a "distinguished...
14, 2017. The film was the second Netflix film competing at Cannes, with Okja, which caused a clash with jury president Pedro Almodóvar, who opined that...
Keller was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her mother is award-winning author Nora Okja Keller. She graduated from Punahou School in 2011 and from Bryn Mawr College...
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at Plan B Entertainment for a decade, where she produced Bong Joon-Ho's Okja, and Joe Talbot's The Last Black Man In San Francisco. She has also executive...
first scene". He also had a supporting role in the action-adventure film Okja and starred in the drama Stronger, based on Boston Marathon bombing survivor...
Raup, Jordan (June 29, 2017). "Bong Joon Ho on the Big Screen Experience of Okja and Capturing Today's World". Film at Lincoln Center. Archived from the original...
competition films to have been released in French theaters. The Cannes premiere of Okja in 2017 was controversial, and led to discussions over the appropriateness...
Office Mojo. Retrieved May 28, 2017. Trumbore, Dave (November 5, 2015). "'Okja': Bong Joon-ho's Monster Movie Adds Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, and Bill...
Meishan Pigs adaptability to small holder farms. List of domestic pig breeds Okja "梅山豬種". Silvera, Rico. "Breed Description". American Meishan Breeders Association...
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