Audition

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 ...more

Takashi Miike's Audition begins as a rather light romantic drama about a middle-aged widower, Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi), a television producer, who decides to find a new wife by auditioning actresses for a film. Once Aoyama settles on Asami (model Eihi Shiina), the quietest, most demure-seeming woman, Miike slowly begins to reveal hints of the horror that is to come. Asami sits by the phone, presumably for days on end, in an apartment that's bare except for a large canvas bag. When Aoyama finally ...more