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Bong Joon-ho’s Okja gets a mys­te­ri­ous first-look teaser

28 Feb 2017

Words by Katherine McLaughlin

The director’s Til­da Swin­ton-star­ring lat­est looks at the bond between man and animal.

South Korea’s Bong Joon-ho is the lat­est big name direc­tor to reject a tra­di­tion­al dis­tri­b­u­tion deal in favour of an online stream­ing plat­form, which is per­haps unsur­pris­ing giv­en that his pre­vi­ous film, 2013’s Snow­piercer, didn’t receive so much as a DVD release in the UK.

No such dra­ma con­cern­ing his lat­est, Okja, which is now set for release on 28 June cour­tesy of Net­flix. Billed as a ​“grand glob­al adven­ture fol­lows a friend­ship too big to ignore”, the film con­cerns a young Kore­an girl named Mija (Seo-Hyun Ahn) who tries to pro­tect her best friend from being kid­napped by a shady mul­ti-nation­al cor­po­ra­tion. Just FYI, the ​‘best friend’ in ques­tion is a mas­sive ani­mal named Okja.

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We’re always excit­ed to see what Bong has been up to, and this part com­ing-of-ager, part cor­po­rate satire has all the right ingre­di­ents to be one of the year’s bold­est and most orig­i­nal films. Okja also stars Til­da Swin­ton, Jake Gyl­len­haal, Paul Dano, Lil­ly Collins and Steven Yeun, and marks the director’s upcom­ing project, hav­ing been co-writ­ten by Jon Ron­son of Frank and The Men Who Stare at Goats fame.

Watch the first-look teas­er above and let us know your thoughts @LWLies

A smiling man wearing a beige sun hat, green shirt, and sunglasses, standing outdoors in a forested setting.
Silhouette of a massive rhinoceros-like creature with smokestacks, towering over a small human figure walking by. Gloomy, atmospheric lighting with dark clouds and smoke in the background.
Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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