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Ryo Ishibashi,
Ryo Ishibashi,
Eihi Shiina,
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Takashi Miike,
Takashi Miike
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: Not Rated
: Lions Gate
: Cult, Foreign, Horror, Japan, Asian Horror
: 75 min.
: English, Japanese
: English, Spanish
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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 looking more closely at his potential bride-to-be: her autobiographical details don't quite check out, she has a number of ugly scars on her legs, and he learns that people in her life have a habit of disappearing. When he discovers a man trussed up in her living room with his tongue and feet lopped off, he concludes that she is perhaps not the woman of his dreams. Audition was screened at the 1999 Vancouver Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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Love them or hate them, Miike's ultra-dark films are undeniably unforgettable, and this one may take the cake
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by liversounds
April 21, 2006 - 1:14 PM PDT
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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...try watching this movie right after happiness of the katakuris... youll keep waiting for the characters to burst into song... but soon enough youll realize the film is not heading where expected...
some of the foreshadowing is insecurely blatant... almost as if miike has moments where being misunderstood catches up to him;
however, there is material worth watching, and the lead female is beautiful and intriguing; |
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