Audition [Blu-ray]

Director: Takashi Miike Takashi Miike

Overview

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 she is perhaps not the woman of his dreams. Audition was screened at the 1999 Vancouver Film Festival.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/12/2019
UPC:	0760137220282
Original Release:	1999
Rating:	NR
Source:	Arrow Video
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:55:00
Sales rank:	12,665

Special Features

Brand new 2k restoration of original vault elements; Original 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio; Optional English Subtitles; Audio Commentary with Director Takashi Miike and Screenwriter Daisuke Tengan; Brand new Commentary by Miike biographer Tom Mes examining the film and its source novel; Introduction by Miike; Ties That Bind: A brand new interview with Takashi Miike; Interviews with stars Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Renji Ishibashi and Ren Osugi; Damaged Romance: An appreciation by Japanese cinema historian Tony Rayns; Trailers; Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Ryo Ishibashi	Shigeharu Aoyama,Old Man in Wheelchair
Eihi Shiina	Asami Yamazaki
Tetsu Sawaki	Shigehiko Aoyama
Jun Kunimura	Yasuhisa Yoshikawa
Miyuki Matsuda	Ryoko Aoyama
Tohsie Negishi	Rie
Ren Osugi	Shibata
Shigeru Saiki	Toastmaster
Ken Teruishi	Director
Yuriko Hirooka	Michiyo Yanagida
Fumiyo Kobinata	TV Station Producer
Misato Nakamura	Misuzu Takagi
Masato Arima	Shigeharu as a Child
Ayaka Izumi	Asami as a Child
Nattsu Tanahashi	Hotel Front Desk
Kimiko Tachibana	FM Announcer
Tasuo Endo	Doctor
Koshio Shintoji	Nurse
Kanji Tsuda	Bartender
Party	Gangster
Kôji Endô	Composer

Technical Credits

Daisuke Tengan

Takashi Miike	Director
Satoshi Fukushima	Producer
Akemi Suyama	Producer
Toyoyuki Yokohama	Executive Producer
Daisuke Tengan	Screenwriter
Tatsuo Ozeki	Producer

Editorial Reviews

A diabolically adroit piece of filmmaking that goes even further than the films of Italy's excruciatingly macabre Dario Argento.