The teaser for Okja promises a very different take on the monster movie than Bong Joon-ho’s The Host, whose rampaging title creature served as a metaphor for all sorts of dangers including (somewhat controversially) the continued presence of the U.S. military on Korean soil.
Bong Joon-ho first popped up on American movie fans’ radar screens in 2006 with his unconventional, and at times outright satirical, monster movie The Host.
Now Bong Joon-ho is back with another intriguing, off-beat project: the adventure film Okja, which is set to be released by Netflix.
In Okja, a young girl named Mija must go up against an evil corporation to protect her best friend, a fictional mountain-dwelling beast.