Audition

Titolo originale: オーディション
Regia: Takashi Miike |
Anno: 2000
Origine: Japan |
Generi: Horror Dramma
Tag: sadism | man looking for wife | psychological thriller | torture | pretty woman |
Cast: Ryo Ishibashi | Eihi Shiina | Jun Kunimura | Tetsu Sawaki | Renji Ishibashi | Miyuki Matsuda | Toshie Negishi | Yuriko Hirooka | Shigeru Saiki | Ken Mitsuishi | Ren Osugi | Kanji Tsuda | Fumiyo Kohinata | Misato Nakamura | Yuuto Arima | Ayaka Izumi | Kimiko Tachibana | Tatsuo Endō | Koshio Jindôji |

Un produttore cinematografico rimasto vedovo decide, dopo anni di solitudine, di risposarsi. Un suo collega ed amico organizza un'audizione di casting fittizia dove l'uomo, in principio riluttante, incontra una misteriosa giovane di cui si innamorerà follemente: la scelta sfortunamtamente si rivelerà infelice.

Approfondimenti

The film's horror elements were meant to be a plot twist, as they don't really occur until the third [...] D
Audition was originally started by the Japanese company Omega Project, who wanted to make a horror f [...] D
Ryo Ishibashi doesn't like horror films very much in real life, and only accepted the role in the fi [...] D
The film has appeared on several lists of the best horror films ever made, and has had an influence [...] D
Eihi Shiina doesn't appear in the film until the 28 minute mark. D
Audition has been read as feminist or misogynistic by different people, based on various scenes. How [...] D
The death of Aoyama's dog is much more graphic in the novel than it was in the film, where the audie [...] D
Takashi Miike wanted to end the film at the onset of the torture scene that the film is now famous f [...] D
Audition was shot in approximately three weeks, which was about one more week than usual for Takashi [...] D
The ambiguous ending seems to suggest that Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) either has paranoid visions of how [...] D
The ending to the novel differs greatly from what is is seen in the film. In the novel, after Asami [...] D
Takashi Miike has said that he doesn't see this movie as horror, because in Japan horror is consider [...] D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. D
Takashi Miike felt that the book was a love letter to a woman; so the script was made as a reply fro [...] D
The music video for the first single of My Chemical Romance ("Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough fo [...] D
Asami in the film almost always wears white clothing. In Japan, the color white is associated with d [...] D
The paralyzing drug Asami injects into Aoyama is fictional. Takashi Miike said they made it up becau [...] D
Details of Asami's backstory and troubled childhood were more descriptive in the novel than they wer [...] D
In the early 2010s, Time Out conducted a poll with several authors, directors, actors and critics wh [...] D
Since he is always working on future projects, director Takashi Miike had already left the Rotterdam [...] D
Heavy metal musician and horror movie director/actor Rob Zombie admitted he found this movie to be t [...] D
Audition influenced American directors such as Eli Roth. Roth stated that Audition influenced him to [...] D
The captive man in a sack did not exist in the novel, and was created exclusively for the film. Asam [...] D
The film was slated at one point to get an English-language American remake, in the 2000's when Asia [...] D
In the novel, Asami had another victim who was a teenage boy, prior to meeting Aoyama. He was wheele [...] D
Audition has been described as an influence on "torture porn." The term was invented by David Edelst [...] D
The dog bowl of vomit fed to Asami's (Eihi Shiina) prisoner is in fact the actual vomit of actress E [...] D
Described by Quentin Tarantino as a "true masterpiece if ever there was one," in a video discussing [...] D
When the film was screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2000, it had a record number of walkout [...] D