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Audition (オーディション, Ōdishon) is a 1999 horror film directed by Takashi Miike and adapted by Daisuke Tengan, based on the 1997 novel by Ryu Murakami. Starring Ryo Ishibashi and Eihi Shiina , the film is about a widower, Shigeharu Aoyama (Ishibashi), who stages a phony audition to meet a potential new romantic partner.
Audition (1999) is a stunningly complex and poignant portrayal of a basket of "man fears," and this may explain a lot of its inexplicable appeal to men in the West (spoilers inside). After having seen Takashi Miike's Audition a few times, and having revisited it on Halloween night, I find it to resonate with the anxieties of the typical Western ...
About the ending of Audition (1999) [spoilers] I just watched Audition. Great movie, very interesting story and an unsettling tone throughout the movie. The performance by the girl was especially fantastic. However, at the end, the sons reaction to seeing his father lying on the ground with needles sticking out of his eye and one foot lobbed ...
Audition (1999) - everything explained, according to the book. Discussion. When I watched this movie, I had so many questions as the credits role. Some 20 years later, I finally read the book. All was explained: Asami was repeatedly abused by her step-father (who had no feet) when she was a child.
An audacious, unsettling Japanese horror film from director Takashi Miike, Audition entertains as both a grisly shocker and a psychological drama. Read Critics Reviews
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Aoyama visits the old ballet studio where Asami claimed to have trained for 12 years. He finds that the studio is now inhabited only by a disabled old man in a wheelchair with artificial feet. It is revealed that the man caused the burn scars on Asami's legs.
