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Actors: Ryo Ishabashi, Eini Shiina, Jun Kunimura
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Audition |
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AUDITION (Ôdishon) is a movie directed by Takashi Miike in 1999.
Shigeharu Aoyama lives alone with his son since the death of his wife seven years before. Yoshikawa, one of his producers, offers to be present at an audition for his next movie. As Yoshikawa is looking for a young woman to play the main character of the movie, Shigeharu could find a woman he could love.
Indeed, at this occasion, Shigeharu falls in love with Asami, a young woman living alone. She'll tell Shigeharu that she has been severely molested as a kid by her uncle and that she's vainly looked for a man who could protect her until now. Blinded by love, Shigeharu doesn't listen to Yoshikawa who's remarked that all the claims made by Asami during the audition are false.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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When Aoyama (Ishabashi) learns that male black sea bream, similar to one he just ate, “change sex at 15 centimeters,” the cultural tone of this 1999 Director's Cut (Takashi Miike) is set. Although Aoyama is a successful movie producer, his dreams are of remarrying after seven years of widowhood. But lacking the confidence to search for a “young, well-trained” girl, he arranges a “fake” (but fabulously edited) audition to interview dozens of young girls quickly. When beautiful Asami Yamakazi (Shiina) captivates him with her “thoughtfulness,” his friend Yasuhisa (Kunimura) and his son each sense “bad chemistry.” Still, Aoyama dines her nightly, admitting there never was a movie part, setting a shift to an atypical revenge movie. Through flashbacks of child abuse intercut with hallucinogenic dreams, we must reason what is real and what is not--especially the 12-minute, real-time torture scene near the end.
--Angry Jim Magin, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
- present (2000-2010)
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- seduction (yum!)
- spurned lover goes for revenge
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- molestation
Lover is...
- criminal/bad doer
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- producer/director
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
- (man) muscular
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- (woman) skinny
- (woman) average
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Asia/Pacific/Middle East
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- moving train
- bar
- mental hospital
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- licking
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Japanese
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- None
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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