Vegetarian (2010)
February 18, 2010Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Chae Min-seo
Yeong-hye
Hyun Sung
Min-ho
Kim Yeo-jin
Ji-hye
Kim Young-jae
Kil-soo
Yoon Ji-hye
Hye-kyeong
Tae In-ho
Sang-min
Choi Jin-ho
Dr. Park
Lee Seung-yeon
Head nurse
Gi Ju-bong
Ji-hye's Father
Kim Ui-jin
Ji-woo
Go Ju-yeon
Ji-hye (young)
Park Ji-yeon
Nurse #1
Son Hee-soon
Ji-hye's mother - Special appearance
Lim Woo-seong
Director / Writer
Jeong Yong-jin
Original Music Composer
Chang-bae Kang
Cinematography
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Release DateFebruary 18, 2010
Original Name채식주의자
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
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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. 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".