Audition
Chimera (1999)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In Collection
#1323
0*
Blu-ray Disc
115 mins
IMDB

Ryo Ishibashi Shigeharu Aoyama
Eihi Shiina Asami Yamazaki
Tetsu Sawaki Shigehiko Aoyama
Jun Kunimura Yasuhisa Yoshikawa
Renji Ishibashi Old man in wheelchair
Miyuki Matsuda Ryoko Aoyama
Toshie Negishi Rie
Ren Osugi Shibata
Shigeru Saiki Toastmaster
Ken Mitsuishi Director

Director Takashi Miike
Producer Satoshi Fukushima
Toyoyuki Yokohama
Writer Ryu Murakami
Daisuke Tengan

Audition tells a story of a middle-aged, widowed TV company executive Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi). It's been seven long years after the death of his beloved wife Ryoko, leaving the widower with only a few people in his world. One of them is Rie (Toshie Negishi), the housekeeper. The other is his son Shigehiko (Tetsu Sawaki). Aoyama, now a bachelor with a terminal illness, finally makes a decision to shake off the ghost of his deceased wife and move on with his life. Shigeharu asks his only friend, and business partner, Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura) for help and he comes up with a brilliant plan - a fake audition for a non-existing movie, designed to lure pretty young actresses onto the casting couch. Shigeharu, however, is looking for something different - love in a heartless, cruel society, where he has no other choice. And he finds it, hopelessly falling in love with a former ballerina named Asami (Eihi Shiina), simply after reading her resume. She wins the starring role of a lifetime. The movie holds Miike's trademark of being both fascinating and disgusting. After a deceptively melodramatic first hour, it develops into a horrific endurance test of viewer's nerves and a bloody massacre.

Edition Details
Country South Korea
Language Korean
Barcode 826663115758
Region Region 1
No. of Disks/Tapes 1