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
Music by	Jeong Yong-jin
Cinematography	Kang Chang-bae
Edited by	Mun In-dae
Production company	Blue Tree Pictures
Distributed by	Sponge
Release date	October 9, 2009 (2009-10-09) (Pusan) January 22, 2010 (2010-01-22) (Sundance) February 18, 2010 (2010-02-18) (South Korea)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	₩26,459,000

Vegetarian (Hangul: 채식주의자) is a 2010 South Korean drama film directed by Lim Woo-Seong based on the same-titled novel by Han Kang. 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 felt that the film was "an audacious if borderline risible psychodrama".