For 10 idyllic years, young Mija has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja - a massive animal and an even bigger friend - at her home in the mountains of South Korea. But that changes when a family-owned multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves 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. With no particular plan but single-minded in intent, Mija sets out on a rescue mission, but her already daunting journey quickly becomes more complicated when she crosses paths with disparate groups of capitalists, demonstrators and consumers, each battling to control the fate of Okja... while all Mija wants to do is bring her friend home.
"Okja" is a co-production between Korea, South Africa, and the USA.
Gu Chang leads to a tragic existence. The seventh-year college student constantly fails job interviews and lives off of an allowance from his divorced sister while taking money from his little nephew. To make matters worse, the almost 30-year-old virgin has never had a girlfriend, let alone experienced his first kiss. In Korean, Gu Chang is a homonym for the word meaning "a sore in the mouth".
But springtime finally seems to have arrived for Gu Chang, defrosting the stark winters of his barren love life, when he meets the sweet and innocent Ah Ni.
All seems to be well, and Gu Chang gets a taste of heaven as he kisses his pretty girlfriend for the first time - until Ah Ni bites his tongue and gives him a nice kick, introducing herself as Ha Ni. And so begins Gu Chang's painful relationship with his split-personality girlfriend, dealing with Ah Ni's adorably childish demeanors one moment, then defending his life from Ha Ni's high kicks.