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Audition (Ôdishon)
A middle-aged widower is urged by his teenage son and a film producer friend to start dating again. They devise a plan to hold a phony film audition to meet new women. The widower falls for a beautful ballerina with a suspicious past, and their courtship veers from polite romance to psycho-nightmare!
Cast
| Directed by |
Takashi Miike |
| Shigeharu Aoyama |
Ryo Ishibashi |
| Asami Yamazaki |
Eihi Shiina |
| Shigehiko Aoyama |
Tetsu Sawaki |
| Yasuhisa Yoshikawa |
Jun Kunimura |
| Old man in wheelchair |
Renji Ishibashi |
| Ryoko Aoyama |
Miyuki Matsuda |
| Rie |
Toshie Negishi |
| Shibata |
Ren Osugi |
| Toastmaster |
Shigeru Saiki |
| Director |
Ken Mitsuishi |
| Michiyo Yanagida |
Yuriko Hirooka |
| TV station presenter |
Fumiyo Kohinata |
| Misuzu Takagi |
Misato Nakamura |
| Shigehiko as a child |
Yuuto Arima |
| Asami as a child |
Ayaka Izumi |
Main Target
Shigeharu Aoyama
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Trivia
| Takashi Miike wanted to end the film at the onset of the torture scene that the film is now famous for. However, one of the producers told him to "Be a man and see it through to the end." |
| The paralyzing drug Asami injects into Aoyama is fictional. Takashi Miike said they made it up because the film would have been difficult to finish without contriving such a drug. |
| When the film was screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2000 it had a record number of walkouts. At the Swiss premiere someone passed out and needed emergency room attention. |
"Words create lies. Pain can be trusted."
~Asami
Asami is played by:
Eihi Shiina
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