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Audition (DVD, 2001)

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AUDITION is an art-house cult horror film that will be talked about for a long time to come. Ryo Ishibashi stars as Aoyama, a single father who has not dated since his wife died seven years earlier. To help find another woman to bring joy into Aoyama's charmless life, his best friend, television producer Yoshikawa, convinces Aoyama that they should add a fake part to a show they are auditioning actresses for--a role that will become Aoyama's real-life companion. After a series of comical auditions, in walks a woman whom Aoyama thinks is perfect--Asami, played by former model Eihi Shiina. But when Aoyama proves too tentative in his courting--and starts learning odd things about Asami's past--she decides to exact a revenge that filmgoers will never forget.<BR><BR>Director Takashi Miike's film, based on the novel by Ryu Murakami, begins like a slow-moving romance, carefully developing the characters and their maturing relationships. But suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, the mood and pace change, smashing viewers over the head with fast cuts between the past and the present, with dreamlike images that turn into torrid nightmares, with screams and shouts where there had been soft-spoken whispers, with blood and violence that replaces love and longing. The last section of the film is one of the most brutal torture scenes ever put on celluloid, and it is definitely not for the faint of heart. But even in its gore-filled shockingness, the film is beautiful to look at, a monumental achievement by a director willing to take chances and challenge his audience.

Product Identifiers

ProducerSoji Fukushima, Akemi Suyama, Satoshi Hukushima

EAN5023965334022

eBay Product ID (ePID)3943940

Product Key Features

ActorEihi Shiina, Ren Osugi, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi, Tetsu Sawaki, Ryo Ishibashi, Miyuki Matsuda

Film/TV TitleAudition

DirectorTakashi Miike

LanguageJapanese

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time111 Mins

Aspect RatioAnamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2001

FormatDVD

FeaturesStar And Director Filmographies\Scene Selection\Chris Campion Film Notes\Mike Takashi Interview\Original Theatrical Trailers\Extreme Asia Trailer Reel, Widescreen, With Subtitles

GenreHorror/Occult, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureJapan

ComposerKoji Endo

Executive ProducerToyoyuki Yokohama

Additional InformationAUDITION is an art-house cult horror film that will be talked about for a long time to come. Ryo Ishibashi stars as Aoyama, a single father who has not dated since his wife died seven years earlier. To help find another woman to bring joy into Aoyama's charmless life, his best friend, television producer Yoshikawa, convinces Aoyama that they should add a fake part to a show they are auditioning actresses for--a role that will become Aoyama's real-life companion. After a series of comical auditions, in walks a woman whom Aoyama thinks is perfect--Asami, played by former model Eihi Shiina. But when Aoyama proves too tentative in his courting--and starts learning odd things about Asami's past--she decides to exact a revenge that filmgoers will never forget.<BR>Director Takashi Miike's film, based on the novel by Ryu Murakami, begins like a slow-moving romance, carefully developing the characters and their maturing relationships. But suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, the mood and pace change, smashing viewers over the head with fast cuts between the past and the present, with dreamlike images that turn into torrid nightmares, with screams and shouts where there had been soft-spoken whispers, with blood and violence that replaces love and longing. The last section of the film is one of the most brutal torture scenes ever put on celluloid, and it is definitely not for the faint of heart. But even in its gore-filled shockingness, the film is beautiful to look at, a monumental achievement by a director willing to take chances and challenge his audience.

ReviewsNew York Times - ...With a quiet that's meticulously transformed into moodiness and then fear-filled tension, the director Takashi Miike eases us in slowly....AUDITION doesn't let you down..., Box Office - ...Miike has a Bunuelian talent for turning our preconceptions on their heads as a scare tactic...

ScreenwriterDaisuke Tengan

AuthorRyu Murakami

Format DescriptionDVD 5

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleAudition

Director of PhotographyHideo Yamamoto