This film also goes under the title Odishon. In Japanese, with English subtitles.
Nothing is ever what it seems in Takashi Miike's films and the same can be said about Audition. It is a gruesome and disturbing film, but the beginning can be misleading. The film starts out with a man whose wife has recently died. He takes an offer to audition girls who do not know that they are auditioning to be his wife. He picks Asami, yet she is not quite who she seems to be when it turns out that she is a psychopathic murderess.
The scene that everybody remembers so fondly is the final one. Just a warning: it is powerful and yet, it contains not a single shot of what violence is being done under the camera. People mistake the film for being gory, but Miike is a smart man. He chooses not to show a single shot of blood.
Audition is a great piece of horror, but the beginning is not quite what the rest of the movie is. It does not truly get moving until about an hour in. Give this film patience. Also, prepare for torture and some strong graphic scenes. I just want you to know what you're getting into.
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