Vegetarian (film)

Vegetarian
Sundance film poster
Hangul	채식주의자
Revised Romanization	Chaesikju-uija
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'aeshikchuŭija
Directed by	Lim Woo-Seong
Written by	Lim Woo-Seong
Starring	Chae Min-seo Kim Hyun-Sung Kim Yeo-jin
Cinematography	Kang Chang-bae
Edited by	Mun In-dae
Music by	Jeong Yong-jin
Production company	Blue Tree Pictures
Distributed by	Sponge
Release dates	October 9, 2009 (2009-10-09) (Busan) February 18, 2010 (2010-02-18) (South Korea)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	₩26,459,000[1]

Vegetarian (Korean: 채식주의자; Hanja: 菜食主義者; RR: Chaesikjuuija) is a 2009 South Korean erotic body horror drama film directed by Lim Woo-Seong based on the 2007 same-titled novel by Han Kang.^[2] The film debuted at the 14th Busan International Film Festival on October 8, 2009, and was later released in South Korea on February 18, 2010. In January 2010, it was invited to the World Cinema Narrative Competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

Justin Chang, writing for Variety, said, "Body horror and body art are conjoined in the tastefully kinky" film, which is a "tonally extreme portrait of a woman who swears off meat before retreating into a literally vegetative state". He wrote that the film is "an audacious if borderline risible psychodrama".^[3]