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Audition (1999)
Following the death of his wife, Shidehara Aoyama, a Japanese widower, who driven by his grief for losing his wife, decides to stay alone and raise his son, who in order to convince his father to remarry, asks for help from his best friend who is a film producer to search for a woman to marry him, by convincing him to take part in a fake movie.
23 January 1954, Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan
6 October 1961, Tokyo, Japan
16 November 1955, Kumamoto, Japan
27 August 1965, Fukui, Japan
31 May 1965, Chiba, Japan
18 November 1949, Shizuoka, Japan
27 September 1951, Tokushima, Japan
3 February 1976, Fukuoka, Japan
September 25, 2010
It's Japanese provocateur Takashi Miike's best film - a mordant spin on "Little Red Riding Hood" with sexist expectations as the wolf on which the tables are turned. Its "kiri, kiri" refrain also is the Zeroes' answer to "Is it safe?" from "Marathon Man."
October 18, 2001
The shock imperative takes on a life of its own and floats away from the lengthy setup.
November 01, 2001
This brazen shocker is never less than compelling -- even when you feel compelled to shut your eyes.
December 20, 2010
An extremely disturbing and violent psychological thriller from the gifted Japanese director Takashi Miike, which will linger in memory long after you see the film.
December 10, 2015
A stomach-turning masterpiece.
December 13, 2015
If you can stomach it, this profoundly moving film will leave you dazed.
November 29, 2001
Miike is brilliant at transforming the mundane and familiar ... into something sinister and eerie.
March 09, 2011
Whether reading Audition as a portrait of coming to terms with grief, a feminist revenge tale, or a graphic exploration of romantic attachment and idealism, it remains a terrifying film.
November 16, 2001
A diabolically adroit piece of filmmaking that goes even further than the films of Italy's excruciatingly macabre Dario Argento.
October 19, 2001
There will be many people who consider Audition an atrocity, and a few who find it a stimulating cinema experience.
November 30, 2001
This movie, at just under two hours, is a long crawl from inception to climax.
March 01, 2016
With escalating unease and a switch and bait that Hitchcock would be proud of, Audition culminates in its infamously disturbing dénouement.

