Vegetarian (film)
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| 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 |
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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]
Cast
[edit]- Chae Min-seo as Young-Hye
- Kim Hyun-sung as Min-Ho
- Kim Yeo-jin as Ji-Hye
References
[edit]- ^ "KOFIC 영화관 입장권 통합전산망 :: 영화정보". Korean Film Council (in Korean). Retrieved October 21, 2016.
- ^ Mudge, James (June 23, 2012). "Vegetarian (2009) Movie Review". BeyondHollywood.com. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
- ^ Chang, Justin (February 1, 2010). "Review: 'Vegetarian'". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in Korean)
- Vegetarian at IMDb
- Vegetarian at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
- Vegetarian at HanCinema
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