Audition [videorecording (Blu-ray)] / Omega Project Inc. Production ; AFDF-Korea, Creators Company Connection, Body Sonic, Inc. ; produced by Satoshi Fukushima and Akemi Suyama ; a film by Takashi Miike ; original story by Ryu Murakami ; screenplay by Daisuke Tengan ; directed by Takashi Miike.
Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Miyuki Matshuda, Toshie Negishi, Tetsu Sawaki, Ken Mitsuishi, Shigeru Saiki, Ren Osugi, Renji Ishibashi. Credits from subtitles and the film's entry on the IMDb. Originally produced as a Japanese motion picture in 1999.
Contents:
(115 min.); Special features: Audio commentary with director Takeshi Miike and screenwriter Daisuke Tengan, moderated by film writer Masato Kobayashi [audio feature]. Arts and crafts -- Promises -- Dim the lights -- Morning drinks -- No words -- Seclusion -- Behind closed doors -- Stairway -- Glasses raised -- Paralysis -- Awake -- End credits (115 min.); Special features: Audio commentary with director Takeshi Miike and screenwriter Daisuke Tengan, moderated by film writer Masato Kobayashi [audio feature]. International trailer (1 min.); Japanese trailer (2 min.); Booklet includes "Audition: an essay" by Tom Mes. Man in the bag speaks: Ren Osugi / Outcast Cinema ; producer, Mark Walkow ; an Outcast Cinema production in association with Shout! Factory (2009) (16 min.) -- From "Audition" to vampire girl: Eihi Shiina / Outcast Cinema ; producer, Mark Walkow ; an Outcast Cinema production in association with Shout! Factory (2009) (20 min.) -- Miike's toy: Renji Ishibashi / Outcast Cinema ; producer, Mark Walkow ; an Outcast Cinema production in association with Shout! Factory (2009) (21 min.) -- Man in the bag speaks: Ren Osugi / Outcast Cinema ; producer, Mark Walkow ; an Outcast Cinema production in association with Shout! Factory (2009) (16 min.); International trailer (1 min.); Japanese trailer (2 min.); Booklet includes "Audition: an essay" by Tom Mes.
Summary:
Audition is a deeply disturbing meditation on the war between the sexes masquerading as a horror film. Aoyama is a lonely Japanese film producer and widower who lives with his teenage son. One evening his son tells him he's starting to look old, and that he should remarry. With the help of pal Yoshikawa he stages a film audition, ostensibly to cast a new film, but really to find a new wife. Smitten by willowy Asami--whose r�esum�e tells of a terrible injury that destroyed her ballet career--Aoyama falls in love and quickly proposes. Love may be blind, but Aoyama is about to discover how dangerous blindness can be. Aoyama failed to see that during their initial meeting, Asami was auditioning him, too. Unfortunately, he failed the tryout.
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