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Movie: Audition
Romaji: Odishon
Japanese: オーディション
Director: Takashi Miike
Writer: Ryu Murakami (novel), Daisuke Tengan (screenplay)
Producer: Satoshi Fukushima, Akemi Touyama
Cinematographer:
Release Date: October 6, 1999
Runtime: 115 Min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

TV producer Aoyama Shigeharu (Ryo Ishibashi) is a middle-class man, Shigehiko (Tetsu Sawaki) his teenage son. His friend, movie producer Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura), has the perfect palliative for Aoyoma’s loneliness: test out a number of possible new wives by holding a phony movie audition. The clueless Shigeharu eagerly agrees, and he and Yoshikawa hold interviews marked by questions about sex that seem to have little to do with acting. Aoyama eventually settles on tall, otherworldly waif Asami (played by ex-model Eihi Shiina). The more seasoned Yoshikawa senses that something’s not quite right with Asami; he investigates and finds many a hole in her story.

Cast

Ryo Ishibashi - Shigeharu Aoyama
Eihi Shiina - Asami Yamazaki
Tetsu Sawaki - Shigehiko Aoyama
Jun Kunimura - Yasuhisa Yoshikawa
Renji Ishibashi - Old man in wheelchair
Miyuki Matsuda - Ryoko Aoyama
Toshie Negishi - Rie
Ren Osugi - Shimada
Shigeru Saiki - Toastmaster
Ken Mitsuishi - Director
Yuriko Hirooka - Michiyo Yanagida
Fumiyo Kohinata - TV station presenter
Misato Nakamura - Misuzu Takagi
Yuuto Arima - Shigehiko as a child
Ayaka Izumi - Asami as a child
Tomomi Maruyama

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Comments

Comment #2
shokkita Says:
May 26 2011 2:16 am

luckily for me, i watched this movie years ago without seeing that cover, that cover really spoil the movie =/
anyone knows where can i see the original japanese cover?
Comment #1
jayokyo Says:
Jan 26 2010 10:21 am

very sick, but very engaging