The Satellite Girl and Milk Cow
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This South Korean film is all kinds of redonkulous, and that's what I like about it. Okay, so there's this Korean satellite called Kitsat-1, which in this story has human-like thoughts and feelings. She had been inactive for a long time, when one day she picked up a song being sung by a 27-year-old struggling musician named Kyung-chun, and the feelings produced by the song reactivate Kitsat-1, who decides to come to Earth to find the singer. Meanwhile, a milk cow is being chased by a giant walking incinerator, but he (yes, the cow is male) is saved by the wizard Merlin... who has been turned into a roll of toilet paper. I swear I'm not making this up. During the battle, as Kitsat-1 is falling to Earth, she gets transformed into a human girl (well, more like an android, really). And it turns out the milk cow is actually Kyung-chun, who had been transformed from a human when his heart was broken by the girl he loved (though I guess she never thought of him as more than a friend). It seems the same thing is happening to lots of people: when their hearts are broken, they turn into animals. For unknown reasons, the Incinerator wants to eat all such people. But they're also being chased by some kind of wizardly guy called Mr. Oh, who extracts their livers with a toilet plunger, to sell on the black market. (The fundamental humor in this movie reminds me of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.)

So, anyway... Kyung-chun will have to evade both the Incinerator and Mr. Oh, throughout the film, while hoping to become human again. In the meantime, Merlin creates human-suits for him to wear, that look like his real self, though they'll break apart if they get wet. (There was one time this didn't happen and I have no idea why, but I suppose consistent logic isn't important.) Merlin wants to defeat the Incinerator once and for all, to restore "balance" to the world, whatever that means. But Kyung-chun and Kitsat-1 (or Kat-1, for short) don't pay much attention to him. And for most of the movie, Kyung-chun would like both Kat-1 and Merlin to leave him alone, even though they're helpful to him. But inevitably, Kyung-chun and Kat-1 fall in love. And... I don't know what else to say. It's just a really weird movie, for the sake of being weird. It's probably not as good as it could have been; I actually sort of wished it were a bit weirder. But I still liked it. (I mean, I didn't actually like Kyung-chun that much, especially when he was acting upset about being friend-zoned. Though I did feel bad about his being a cow, and all.)

The DVD has a bonus feature, an earlier short film by the same director, called A Coffee Vending Machine and Its Sword.