オーディション – Ôdishon
(original title)
18 | 1h 55min | Drama, Horror, Mystery | Japan
Director: Takashi Miike
Writers: Ryû Murakami (novel), Daisuke Tengan (screenplay)
Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki
18 | 1h 55min | Drama, Horror, Mystery | Japan
Director: Takashi Miike
Writers: Ryû Murakami (novel), Daisuke Tengan (screenplay)
Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki
Audition is a 1999 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike, based on the 1997 novel by Ryu Murakami. It is about a widower, Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi), whose son suggests that he should find a new wife. Aoyama agrees, and with a friend, stages a phony audition to meet a potential new partner in life. After interviewing several women, Aoyama becomes interested in Asami (Eihi Shiina), who responds well to him, although as they begin to date, her dark past begins to affect their relationship.
Audition was originally started by the Japanese company Omega Project, who wanted to make a horror film after the great financial success of their previous production Ring. To create the film, the company purchased the rights to Murakami's book. The film was shot in about three weeks in Tokyo.
The film premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival, but it began to receive much more attention when it was shown at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2000, where it received the FIPRESCI Prize and the KNF Award. Audition has appeared on several lists of the best horror films ever made.
Chilling.
"A stomach-turning masterpiece."
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
"This brazen shocker is never less than compelling -- even when you feel compelled to shut your eyes."
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer
"Miike is brilliant at transforming the mundane and familiar ... into something sinister and eerie."
Patrick Z. McGavin
Chicago Tribune
"A diabolically adroit piece of filmmaking that goes even further than the films of Italy's excruciatingly macabre Dario Argento."
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
