| | Audition DVD
| Category | Action DVDs, Foreign Films Movies, Horror Videos, Thriller, Murder, Essential Cinema, Japan, Actresses | | Starring | Eihi Shiina, Ryo Ishibashi, Renji Ishibashi, Ren Osugi, Jun Kunimura, Miyuki Matsuda, Tetsu Sawaki | | Director | Takashi Miike | | Composer | Koji Endo | | Director of Photography | Hideo Yamamoto | | Executive Producer | Toyoyuki Yokohama | | Producer | Soji Fukushima, Satoshi Hukushima, Akemi Suyama | | Screenwriter | Daisuke Tengan | | Source Writer | Ryu Murakami |
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.
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. Theatrical Release: AUGUST 8, 2001 (NY) Audition Reviews: "...Awful good....This tough, witty grotesquerie aims to shock with a torture sequence so intense it'll make your curls curl..."
-- Doug Brod, Entertainment Weekly "...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..."
-- Elvis Mitchell, New York Times "...Miike has a Bunuelian talent for turning our preconceptions on their heads as a scare tactic..."
-- Paul Clinton, Box Office Audition | List Price | $24.99 (You save $6.94) | | Studio | Shout! Factory | | Orig Year | 2001 | | All Time Sales Rank |  74947  | | CD Universe Part number | 7984227 | | Catalog number | 11696 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Oct 06, 2009 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | Odishon | | Running Time | 115 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Collector's Edition; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Collector's Edition; Widescreen; Subtitled |
Audition Movie Review  excellent movie!
Aside from the subtitles, this movie was freakin' creapy; aweseome thriller; not for the week stomached.
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 This movie is crazy!!!
Well by crazy i mean is raw, and graphic. Well the ending is anyway. Yeah the first half it looks like a normal drama about finding love. But the secound half...is "something else". You will see what I mean.
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An hybrid between Takeshi Kitano and David Lynch
Slow paced movie that has the texture and the camera work of a Takeshi Kitano movie and the twisted plot of a David Lynch one.
Great performances and some of the scenes are really creepy, but this is not what most people would call "an horror movie" in the standards of the industry.
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This review is for a different format. Digs under your skin...
You know you start watching this and everything appears for at least the 1st 45 minutes very normal. A family drama starting in a tragedy and heading towards the middle of the film in a lighter tone as the father looks for his new Love. After about an hour the unease sets in and once the final 30 minutes arrive you kinda know something "wicked is around the corner". And boy is it, although no where near as graphic as Cannibal Holocaust ( and that is a totally different genre I know ) it had my stomach in a knot as Cannibal did. The acting, film work, style is all top notch in my humble opinion ant the DVD does not dissapoint in the film or the extra content. One of my favourites, especially if you have needle phobia...hehehe
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This review is for a different format. Incredibly shocking
Audition takes you on a seemingly safe ride on a passenger bus straight into the depths of a purgatory hell. Simply done, Audition displays the nature of psychotics and demonstrates the importance of background checks. It will leave you feeling alone and empty...which shows you how much of a risk it is to watch this film. You will never know if you will feel normal again.
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Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - Japanese
Dolby Digital 5.0 - Japanese
Subtitles - English
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