AUDITION
(ŌDISHON) (18)
D: Takashi Miike
Tartan (Akemi Suyama & Satoshi
Fukushima)
Japan 🇯🇵 1999 (released 2000)
115 mins
Thriller/Horror
W: Daisuke Tengan
DP: Hideo Yamamoto
Ed: Yasushi Shimamura
Mus: Koji Endo
Ryo Ishibashi (Shigeharu Aoyama), Eihi
Shiina (Asami Yamasaki), Miyuki Matsuda (Ryoko Aoyama), Jun Kunimura (Yoshikawa)
Several years after losing his wife to cancer,
a film producer/director uses a casting call to 'audition' a host of women so he can choose one for his next love interest. He instantly falls in love with one of the women.
A polite, shy, petite and beautiful young dancer who seems like the perfect catch. However, when he begins to date her, this dream catch soon turns into a nightmare as it
transpires that she is a damaged soul and is really after revenge for previously being used and abused by men.
The final act is truly one of the most
horrifying, nightmarish scenes to ever be put on camera and is every man's worst possible nightmare.
Anyone who's seen this film will come to fear
the words "Kiri, Kiri, Kiri"
8/10