Vegetarian (film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Vegetarian

| image = Vegetarian (film).jpg

| caption = Sundance film poster

| native_name = {{Infobox Chinese/Korean|child=yes|hide=no|header=none

| hangul = 채식주의자

| rr = Chaesikjuuija

| mr = Ch'aesikchuŭija}}

| director = Lim Woo-Seong

| producer =

| writer = Lim Woo-Seong

| starring = Chae Min-seo
Kim Hyun-Sung
Kim Yeo-jin

| music = Jeong Yong-jin

| cinematography = Kang Chang-bae

| editing = Mun In-dae

| studio = Blue Tree Pictures

| distributor = Sponge

| released = {{Film date|2009|10|9|Busan|2010|2|18|South Korea}}

| runtime = 113 minutes

| country = South Korea

| language = Korean

| budget =

| gross = {{SK won|26,459,000}}{{cite web|title=KOFIC 영화관 입장권 통합전산망 :: 영화정보|url=http://www.kobis.or.kr/kobis/business/mast/mvie/searchMovieList.do?dtTp=movie&dtCd=20100034|website=Korean Film Council|accessdate=October 21, 2016|language=Korean}}

}}

Vegetarian ({{Korean|채식주의자|菜食主義者|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.{{cite web|last1=Mudge|first1=James|title=Vegetarian (2009) Movie Review|url=http://www.beyondhollywood.com/vegetarian-2009-movie-review/|website=BeyondHollywood.com|accessdate=October 21, 2016|date=June 23, 2012}} 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".{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2010/film/markets-festivals/vegetarian-1117942042/|title=Review: 'Vegetarian'|first=Justin|last=Chang|date=February 1, 2010|work=Variety|publisher=Penske Media Corporation|accessdate=October 21, 2016}}