Audition (US Version) DVD Region 1

AUDITION is an art-house cult horror film that will be talked about for a long time to come. Ryo Ishibashi stars as Aoyama, a single father who has not dated since his wife died seven years earlier. To help find another woman to bring joy into Aoyama's charmless life, his best friend, television producer Yoshikawa, convinces Aoyama that they should add a fake part to a show they are auditioning actresses for--a role that will become Aoyama's real-life companion. After a series of comical auditions, in walks a woman whom Aoyama thinks is perfect--Asami, played by former model Eihi Shiina. But when Aoyama proves too tentative in his courting--and starts learning odd things about Asami's past--she decides to exact a revenge that filmgoers will never forget. Director Takashi Miike's film, based on the novel by Ryu Murakami, begins like a slow-moving romance, carefully developing the characters and their maturing relationships. But suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, the mood and pace change, smashing viewers over the head with fast cuts between the past and the present, with dreamlike images that turn into torrid nightmares, with screams and shouts where there had been soft-spoken whispers, with blood and violence that replaces love and longing. The last section of the film is one of the most brutal torture scenes ever put on celluloid, and it is definitely not for the faint of heart. But even in its gore-filled shockingness, the film is beautiful to look at, a monumental achievement by a director willing to take chances and challenge his audience.

"...With a quiet that's meticulously transformed into moodiness and then fear-filled tension, the director Takashi Miike eases us in slowly....AUDITION doesn't let you down..." - Elvis, Mitchell (New York Times Critic), New York Times, 08/08/2001

"...Miike has a Bunuelian talent for turning our preconceptions on their heads as a scare tactic..." - Paul, Clinton (Box Office Critic), Box Office, 12/01/2001

"...Awful good....This tough, witty grotesquerie aims to shock with a torture sequence so intense it'll make your curls curl..." - Doug, Brod (Entertainment Weekly Critic), Entertainment Weekly, 08/02/2002

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Product Title:	Audition (US Version) Audition (US Version) Audition (US Version) Audition (US Version) Audition (US Version)
Artist Name(s):	Ishibashi Ryo (Actor) | Matsuda Miyuki (Actor) | Sawaki Tetsu (Actor) | Murakami Ryu (Actor) | Osugi Ren (Actor) | Ishibashi Renji (Actor) | Miike Takashi | Hideo Yamamoto (Actor) | Satoshi Hukushima (Actor) | Akemi Suyama | Soji Fukushima (Actor) 石橋凌 (Actor) | 松田美由紀 (Actor) | Sawaki Tetsu (Actor) | 村上 龍 (Actor) | 大杉漣 (Actor) | 石橋蓮司 (Actor) | 三池崇史 | Hideo Yamamoto (Actor) | Satoshi Hukushima (Actor) | Akemi Suyama | Soji Fukushima (Actor) 石桥凌 (Actor) | 松田美由纪 (Actor) | Sawaki Tetsu (Actor) | 村上 龙 (Actor) | 大杉涟 (Actor) | 石桥莲司 (Actor) | Miike Takashi | Hideo Yamamoto (Actor) | Satoshi Hukushima (Actor) | Akemi Suyama | Soji Fukushima (Actor) 石橋凌 (Actor) | 松田美由紀 (Actor) | 沢木哲 (Actor) | Murakami Ryu (Actor) | 大杉漣 (Actor) | 石橋蓮司 (Actor) | 三池崇史 | Ｈｉｄｅｏ Ｙａｍａｍｏｔｏ (Actor) | Satoshi Hukushima (Actor) | Akemi Suyama | Soji Fukushima (Actor) Ishibashi Ryo (Actor) | Matsuda Miyuki (Actor) | Sawaki Tetsu (Actor) | Murakami Ryu (Actor) | Osugi Ren (Actor) | Ishibashi Renji (Actor) | Miike Takashi | Hideo Yamamoto (Actor) | Satoshi Hukushima (Actor) | Akemi Suyama | Soji Fukushima (Actor)
Director:	Miike Takashi 三池崇史 Miike Takashi 三池崇史 Miike Takashi
Producer:	Satoshi Hukushima | Akemi Suyama | Soji Fukushima Satoshi Hukushima | Akemi Suyama | Soji Fukushima Satoshi Hukushima | Akemi Suyama | Soji Fukushima Satoshi Hukushima | Akemi Suyama | Soji Fukushima Satoshi Hukushima | Akemi Suyama | Soji Fukushima
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Release Date:	2005-08-23
UPC Code:	031398178972
Language:	Japanese
Subtitles:	English
Country of Origin:	Japan
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Aspect Ratio:	Letterboxed
Color Information:	Color
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating:	R (MPAA)
Publisher:	Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Package Weight:	99 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004415534

Director: Takashi Miike

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Letterbox - 1.85
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - Japanese
Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Featurette: "Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moment Segment"
Audio Commentary: Takashi Miike - Director (Select Scenes)
Trailers:
1. Original Theatrical Trailer
2. Bonus Trailers
Interviews:
1. Ryu Murakama - Star
2. Takashi Miike - Director
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photos
Biography/Filmography - Takashi Miike - Director