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Audition

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Ryo Ishibashi (Actor), Eihi Shiina (Actor), Takashi Miike (Director) Rated:

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Audition

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If you want the full sledgehammer-to-the-stomach effect of Audition, stop reading this review now. Just watch it and take the consequences. At first glance, Takashi Miike's jack in the box of a movie works like a romantic comedy: amiable widower Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) decides it's time to find a new wife, and a friend suggests holding a fake audition to find the right girl. It soon becomes clear that there is something wrong with Aoyama's choice. This is no ordinary Fatal Attraction-style thriller, however; Audition slowly and carefully builds into a wrenching exploration of both deep male fears and the stereotype of the cute, submissive Japanese woman. Audition is by no means an easy movie to watch--even hardcore horror fans may have trouble--but it will stay with you for a long, long time. --Ali Davis

Product details

Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 4 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Takashi Miike
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Director's Cut, Letterboxed
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 55 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ June 4, 2002
Actors ‏ : ‎ Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Producers ‏ : ‎ Akemi Suyama, Jun'ichi Shindô, Satoshi Fukushima, Toyoyuki Yokohama
Language ‏ : ‎ Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.0)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Chimera
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000640S9
Writers ‏ : ‎ Daisuke Tengan, Ryû Murakami
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Iconic and Disturbing

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2016

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Audition sets you up to go in one direction, then takes you about a thousand miles away from where you thought you were going to go. It's mind-blowing. It's iconic. It inspired and informs a whole subgenre. And I never want to see it again.

Did I mention that it is mind-blowing? Watch it cold. Stay away from spoilers. And then seek help from the internet to figure out what in tarnation you just watched.

Seriously great. But seriously disturbing. Eli Roth and Rob Zombie allegedly had a hard time watching. As they should, since if I am reading the film correctly, it largely depicts an enormous undercurrent of justifiable female rage in the face of oppression and abuse. But maybe that's just my take on it.

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R. Wordsworth

Open letter to Eihi Shiina

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2020

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Dear Shiina,

It is UNBELIEVABLE that you -- as a novice actress in 1999 -- could so brilliantly portray the psychopath, Asami. You were simply too inexperienced as an actress to have so magnificently depicted the convoluted psychological state of a serial sadist. It is simply too remarkable that you -- even as a gifted tragedian -- were able to convey the predator/prey mentality of a monstrously disturbed victim of sexual abuse. It is beyond human capability that you delivered such an amazing performance -- in a seemingly EFFORTLESS manner -- within the context of the bizarre and surreal plotline. Everything you have done with Asami -- her words, tones of voice, actions, facial expressions, behavioral nuances, etc. -- make her eminently BELIEVABLE, which is why Audition is a masterpiece.

I can only conclude that you weren't acting. You truly are a monster. If I ever meet you, please stay at least eight feet away from me, and please keep your hands where I can see them. Stay away from my home. I don't need you showing up as an uninvited guest. [This is my bizarre shock ending paragraph, I am just kidding.]

Sincerely,

YOUR BIGGEST FAN

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Chicken Little

Awesome psychological thriller.

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2016

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I watched this movie because it was listed on Rolling Stone's 20 best horror movies you've never heard of.

They praised the director on excellent use of pacing and build-up. I think they under-praised him.

The movie follows the middle aged man is trying to recover from a death of a spouse. He decides that he wants to start seeing people again and one of his friends recommends that they hold an audition to attract a large number of eligible bachelorettes. Their plan works and soon he is dating a former ballerina turned actress with the past that becomes more mysterious with each scene.

Compared to a lot of movies, the dialogue is relatively sparse. Still you get a great sense of each character's personality and their motivations. The film builds a sense of foreboding danger, but you're not sure how it will develop.

The director makes excellent use of cinematography and dialogue. Many scenes he has a light touch but that is exactly put the scene needed. I am reminded of Soderberg's approach with the Girlfriend Experience.

Another movie that comes to mind is Jacob's ladder. In that one, hell becomes reality and it is not really clear which the viewer is seeing. In this film too, you are left to wonder whether some scenes indeed happened.

I was pleasantly surprised. I knew this was a horror, and I even knew when the horror is supposed to start. The beauty of this film is how get incorporates to psychological horror. Some of the scenes which I play over and over my head had no such impact when I first saw. It isn't until later when more clues are provided that I realize what I have seen and understand the true horror.

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PeaBrain Bubblybutt

It's a chick flick on Valium, then BAM!

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2018

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I've come to realize that horror films from Japan are comparable with a barbeque- takes forever to get the charcoal ready, you're hungry in anticipation of that yummy porterhouse steak (or hot dog, depending on your taste in genres), so you wait. Then when it's ready, you throw that steak on the grill, it's grilled to perfection, you eat it and it's over. It could be worse, however. With Chinese films, you're hungry for more not long after you've already eaten...

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Tmm B

Not the worst

Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2019

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I read this on a list of being one of the top scary movies to see before Halloween and well I missed the deadline, but just finished the movie. I knew going into this movie that there would be subtitles and that is no issue to me. However what was an issue that this movie is so over hyped and so over talked that the expectation is so high and I just didn't see it delivering.
Was it a little creepy oh yes, and was the main character the girl eerie oh yes very much so but the rest to me was just so so. The girl made the movie, but even she could not hold this on together.

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William S. Ott

Awesome Move (Asian Dating Service Gone Wrong)

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2019

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I won't tell you much about this... and it is definitely better if you don't know very much...

It is slow but when it hits you it is totally worth it and will leave a mental scar that will stick with you.

View it as an older, semi-powerful gentleman (reluctantly) using a dating service (common Asian movie type - so much so it is a genre itself)... and pretend it isn't a horror movie... and see where it goes.

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Long wait for action

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2019

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While often hailed as a masterpiece of disturbing film making, Miike's Audition, actually seems to run quite a long time without much happening. While the final 20 minutes or so get interesting, the time spent in the set-up, just seems to drag. Not nearly as bloody or violent as Ichi the KIller, or as off the wall as Visitor Q. An ok film, but seems a little overhyped.

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J. McDonald

Audition.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 5, 2020

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Takashi Miike`s infamous shocker from 1999.
Although this is a gristly, thoroughly nasty horror film it has (as is the case with many considered and notable films in the genre) a much deeper social message – particularly regarding the way Japanese society treats women.
Adapted from Ryū Murakami`s novel, it's a relatively slow-moving film, ostensibly a romantic mystery for the first two chapters; with the help of a film-industry friend, Aoyama - a middle-aged widower - sets up fake film auditions in order to meet a potential wife; that this is regarded as an acceptable idea by both men is some indication of the nature of Japan`s male-dominated culture.
That Asami, the unassuming 24-year-old whom he meets, turns the tables on him - and in such an unexpected way – is a seriously radical act - never mind the obvious shock factor of it`s violence.
This movie has been cited as the inspiration for the “torture porn” sub-genre of horror films – particularly from America, but it's cultural setting makes it much more powerful in context.
A difficult film to sit through and a genuinely disturbing one on first-time viewing; it is quite rightly regarded as a modern horror classic, but not one I care to watch very often.
The standard UK DVD is - of course – in Japanese language with English subtitles; the only extras are a short interview with Miike and a couple of trailer reels.

4 people found this helpful

Colonel Decker

Effective classic from Japanese cinema.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2017

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Audition has been labelled as a horror movie and yet for 70 of its 110 minutes the movie is a romance:drama. Directed by Miike Takishi it's obvious at some point that the movie will go left field. Plot concerns a man who has lost his wife and skips 7 years down the line where friends and even his son suggest he remarries. So his TV mogul friend suggests a new show called Audition, just so they can whittle down different women for him. Inevitably he picks his woman out, but unlucky for him she isn't all she appears to be.

A movie dealing in psychological abuse, as well as physical is wrapped around a maze of secrets and innuendo. The movie works mostly because of lead actor Ryo Ishibashi who gives a sympathetic performance throughout. Be warned the movie is a slow burn, but the pay off is good. Not nearly as gory as some of Miike's films but still highly effective.

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C.S. Filmkunst UK

Asami takes you by the hand, feel free to be a part of this wonderful journey through the deep psychological worlds of a goddess

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 22, 2017

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Audition was made in a world of creativity, brilliant ideas and bizarre visions, in a way I already created a resumee of my opinion in the headline.
Imagine a universe of extreme violence and poetry at the same time, a film that starts as a sweet kind of family tale of a man who is searching for a new wife in his life and his kids actually accept his desires and plans.
But then..., suddenly she comes:
Her name is Asami, she is a quite sensitive young lady, who finds herself in the hard times of missing her destiny as a goddess, when it comes to the art of dancing, that she has to say goodbye to - on the other hand it was the main place of her suffering.
Her personal past is full of pain, difficult situations and death - and that is exactly what she will bring to us, please take a look at this masterpiece, without a doubt Takashi's best picture and another excellent example for japanese pearls of horror and "harmony"!

6 people found this helpful

Kent Vikman

Weird weirdness from Japan.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2021

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Takashi Miikes Audition is a very surreal story concerning a widower and the woman he meets in an attempt to move on. Asami, the woman, is a mysterious individual whose past is shrouded in shadows. Along the journey, the surrealism deepens and ultimately we are forced to ask if any of what we saw actually happened.

Mr. C. K. Williams

A distressing masterpiece from Takashi miike.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2013

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i don't want to spoil to much about the film so i'll keep it brief.

a lonely widower is convinced by his son that he should get remarried, so he and his friend hold a fake audition so that he can pick a wife out of the bunch, once he meets the woman of his dreams, he becomes emotionally attached to her, but little realizing that she is not as wonderful as she seems.

Audition isn't a horror film in the traditional sense, instead it plays out like a romantic drama for the first 58 minutes, then the last 40 minutes, it turns into a gut wrenching nightmare. i don't really have anything bad to say about the film, it delivered exactly what it promised and that was to creep you out. the cinematography is to die for, the editing is elegant and the acting is realistic as ever. the horror scenes are what get to me the most, it's almost as if Takashi miike creeped into a psychopaths house and filmed the events without them noticing, the lack of music helps build tension as you can hear the sounds of the characters, whether gasping or crawling. overall 10/10 from me. i highly recommend it.

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