Audition (1999)

Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike creates this unnerving horror film about a widowed TV producer auditioning prospective wives. In his search, one candidate particularly stands out, a lovely ex-ballerina dressed in white. The widower cannot believe his good fortune, until he starts looking more closely at his potential bride-to-be: her autobiographical details don't quite check out, she has a number of ugly scars on her legs, and he learns that people in her life have a habit of disappearing. When he discovers a man trussed up in her living room with his tongue and feet lopped off, he concludes that s...
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he is perhaps not the woman of his dreams. Audition was screened at the 1999 Vancouver Film Festival.
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Zeven jaar na het overlijden van zijn vrouw, denkt Aoyama eindelijk weer toe te zijn aan een relatie, maar vraagt zich af of hij nu nog in contact kan komen met het andere geslacht. Zijn vriend Yoshikawa nodigt hem daarom uit om een auditie bij te wonen, zodat hij een geschikte partner kan uitzoeken. Wanneer Aoyama de CV's van de kandidaten doorneemt, wordt hij getroffen door Asami, een jonge, verpletterend mooie balletdanseres. Na het interview is hij op slag aan haar verslingerd en besluit haar mee uit te vragen. Na een tijdje twijfelt hij echter of hij wel de goede keuze heeft gemaakt.

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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 to...
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o 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.
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