Okja

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Okja

film by Bong [2017]

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Bong Joon-Ho
Feature film director
environmentalism and animal rights with Okja (2017), about a girl’s relationship with her giant genetically modified pig. It opened at Cannes, where it competed for the top award. Bong’s next film, the darkly comic horror movie Gisaengchung (2019; Parasite), took aim at the cruelty of social and financial inequity with…
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environmentalism and animal rights with Okja (2017), about a girl’s relationship with her giant genetically modified pig. It opened at Cannes, where it competed for the top award. Bong’s next film, the darkly comic horror movie Gisaengchung (2019; Parasite), took aim at the cruelty of social and financial inequity with…
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Jake Gyllenhaal
Road House and Presumed Innocent
…supporting role in Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja (2017), about a girl’s relationship with a genetically modified pig. His other movies from the decade include the western The Sisters Brothers (2018) and Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019), about the comic-book superhero. In 2023 he starred in Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, a thriller…
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…supporting role in Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja (2017), about a girl’s relationship with a genetically modified pig. His other movies from the decade include the western The Sisters Brothers (2018) and Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019), about the comic-book superhero. In 2023 he starred in Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, a thriller…
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