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Audition (Ôdishon)

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Audition (Ôdishon)

Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi

Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a strik...( read more  read more... )ing young woman with ballet training. On the day of the audition, she's the last person they see. Aoyama is hooked. He notes her number from her file, calls her and takes her to dinner. He hesitates to call again, worried that he'll seem too eager. When he does, Asami knowingly lets the phone ring for some time before answering. She's alone in her darkened room - alone, that is, apart from the writhing victim she has tied up in a sack on the floor...

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  • mrpopcorn
    November 10, 2009
    mrpopcorn
    "She always gets a part"

    Widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all...

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    While it takes some of its psychological cues from the early thrillers of Roman Polanski, and stylistic excerpts from Kubrick to David Lynch, "Audition" stands on its own as a disturbing, post-modern horror film with passages of genuinely nightmarish surrealism. Director Takashi Miike weaves a tale of an aging widower who holds a fake film audition in hopes of meeting the perfect woman; his intentions are sincere, and he seemingly finds his match in Asami, a physically and psychologically damaged 24-year old who hides a dark past...or does she? While a bit too deliberately-paced at times, overall Miike builds an unusual atmosphere drowned in mounting suspense; his actors sell the premise, and transform "Audition" into something more than a De Palma-esquire exercise in style.
  • SirPant
    September 14, 2009
    SirPant
    Audition is Miike's most subtle film to date but that's not to say it's not scary, in fact, it actually makes it more terrifying. It's what you don't see that scares you, an idea so many modern horror makers forget. It's only the second horror film that has ever given me a nightm...( read more)are. The first one was Jaws. Intelligent horror, from one of the sickest (and Brilliant) directors working today.
  • MovieGeek13
    July 30, 2009
    MovieGeek13
    I've always seen Takashi Miike as an interesting but very inconsistent filmmaker. Those inconsistencies are non-existent with this horror masterpiece. Even more amazing is that Miike, a director known for his excessively violent and gory films, shows amazing restraint. While t...( read more)his film contains disgusting, gut-wrenching, seriously disturbing sequences, they are few and far between. Much of this movie plays like a family drama interspliced with scenes of horror.
    Ryo Ishibashi plays Aoyama, a film producer who loses his wife, and, with some persistence from his son, sets out to remarry. He holds a fake audition to interview possible "contestants" and falls in love with Asami, who, as you may guess, is a psychopath.
    Audition isn't just expertly crafted, it is a serious comment on male and female roles in Japanese society. While Aoyama is a pretty decent guy, he doesn't view women as being anything more than respectful servants. He apparently has had sex with one of his co-workers, and has left her to wonder if that night meant anything to him. Aoyama seems to reflect how conservative Japanese males seem to view women. This is evident in a scene where one of his son's girlfriends unknowingly eats Aoyama's dinner, and upon such a discovery, vows to cook him another meal. Would Aoyama feel obligated to do the same if he unknowingly ate HER meal?
    However, Aoyama does not deserve the fate that Asami has in store for him. She has had an extremely troubled past, filled with abuse and neglect. Men have used her simply for their own selfish reasons, and then have thrown her aside like a piece of rotten meat. She has chosen to lash out at all males, who she believes are all the same.
    What follows is a brilliant and incredibly tense film that hurdles into a showdown of suspense that rivals the best of Hitchcock, and gore that outdoes the worst of Argento. Audition is a gem, a horror masterpiece that must be experienced, unless you're squeamish.
  • Caltiki
    July 15, 2009
    Caltiki
    Miike Takashi is a brilliant wacko who enjoys torturing psychologically his viewers and this psycho-horror is one proof!
  • flixsterman
    May 1, 2009
    flixsterman
    In the last 10 or 15 years Japan has managed to take the horror genre by storm. Here, with Takashi Miike's Audition (Ôdishon), they've even elevated 'gore' to an art form. It's hard for some, especially ME, to think of severed tongues and ears and fingers as 'art', but w...( read more)hen it's used to advance a story, not just for shock and awe, it becomes another color on the artist's pallet..

    For the first hour or so Miike leads you along a storyline that would fit into any serious drama or romantic comedy. You may even forget that you're watching a horror film. And then - zap!

    Personally, movies of this sub-genre aren't usually my cup of tea but, then again, this is no Hostel or Wolf Creek. When the blood letting began I was 'this close' to turning the thing off. If you're like me all I can say, without spoiling the film for you, is stick with it. The horrific sequences are powerful, yes, but a relatively small part of the film and the pay-off at the end is worth the wait.
  • jscottcorley
    December 26, 2009
    jscottcorley
    Kiri kiri kiri kiri. This movie's ending is super-harsh!
  • eryri
    December 18, 2009
    eryri
    Absolutely terrifying tale of what happens when you let a woman who looks cute and innocent into your life suddenly turn into a psycho. At times this may be difficult even for those with the strongest stomachs to watch.
  • julito32
    December 18, 2009
    julito32
    Definitely a movie to be seen - however, the hype that precedes this movie's reputation somewhat kills it.
    By now everyone knows what the movie's about and what happens, but "horror" has always been subjective, and some people (mostly american audiences) may not like this exa...( read more)mple. Some feel it is too slow and not enough "happens". I actually feel that was the appeal of the story and what I actually did like. No "horror-cliche" body count, but a slow moving nice feel-good, rom/com that ends up slowly twisted into $#i+. If anything it's more a suspense drama.
    The story actually succeeded in making me feel sorry for our protagonist (again, a change since in horror you usually want people to get the axe since they deserve it) as this lonely, middle-aged man and good father had nothing but the best of intentions and gets punished for it severely purely by chance.
    The antagonist's reasons for doing what she does is rather cliched already, and the movie tends to just kind of end softly. Either way, just lower expectations and you'll be fine.
  • joydark82
    December 14, 2009
    joydark82
    E' davvero difficile per un fan di David Lynch non pensare al grande regista americano. Realtà e sogno si confondono in modo indecifrabile per il "malcapitato" spettatore. Il montaggio segue i meccanismi tipici dell'inconscio più che quelli accademici. Se l'inquietudine di David ...( read more)Lynch appare spesso più poetica quello di Miike è invece davvero cruenta e perfino insostenibile. Ancora una volta dunque appare evidente l'estremismo della cultura giapponese che spesso ben si riflette nel cinema.
  • sportsphenom1
    December 11, 2009
    sportsphenom1
    David Lynch, take notes. This is what "Mulholland Drive" tried to do, but failed. "Auditon" is a much more harrowing and haunting dream sequence, with a deeper and darker sense of suspense. However, as good as this was, "Lady Vengeance" still reigns as queen of revenge.
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