Audition (1999 film)

Audition

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Takashi Miike
Produced by
Screenplay by Daisuke Tengan
Based on Audition 
by Ryu Murakami
Starring
Music by Kōji Endō
Cinematography Hideo Yamamoto
Edited by Yasushi Shimamura
Production
companies
  • Omega Project
  • Creators Company Connection
  • Film Face
  • AFDF Korea
  • Bodysonic
Release dates
Running time
 115 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese[3]

Audition (オーディション Ōdishon) is a 1999 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike. The film stars Ryo Ishibashi and Eihi Shiina and is based on Ryu Murakami's novel of the same title from a screenplay by Daisuke Tengan.[4] The film is about a recent widower Shigharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) whose son advises him to find a new wife. Aoyama agrees, and with a friend of his he takes advantage of his position at his film company where they stage an audition as potential to meet a new partner in life. After interviewing several women, Aoyama becomes interested in Asami (Eihi Shiina) who responds well to him, although Asami is not exactly as she first appears to be.

The film was screened at the 1999 Vancouver International Film Festival and was released theatrically in Japan on March 3, 2000. Over the years, the film has developed a cult following.[5]

Plot

Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi), a middle-aged widower of seven years, is urged by his 17-year-old son, Shigehiko (Tetsu Sawaki), to begin dating again. Aoyama's friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura), a film producer, devises a mock casting audition in which young women audition for the "part" of Aoyama's new wife. Aoyama agrees to the plan and is immediately enchanted by Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina), attracted to her apparent emotional depth.

Yoshikawa develops misgivings about Asami after he is unable to reach any of the references on her résumé, such as a music producer she claimed to work for, who is missing. However, Aoyama is so enthralled by her that he pursues her anyway. She lives in an empty apartment, containing a sack and a phone. For four days after the audition, she sits perfectly still next to the phone waiting for it to ring. When it finally does, she answers pretending that she never expected Aoyama to call. After several dates, she agrees to accompany him to a seaside hotel, where a smitten Aoyama intends to propose marriage. At the hotel, Asami reveals that she was abused as a child and shows burn scars on her body. After making love, Asami demands that Aoyma pledge his love to her and no one else. A deeply moved Aoyama agrees. In the morning, Asami is nowhere to be found.

Aoyama tries to track her down using her résumé, but as Yoshikawa warned, all of the contacts are dead ends. At the dance studio where she claimed to have trained, he finds a man with prosthetic feet. The bar where she claimed to work has been abandoned for a year, following the murder and dismemberment of the owner. A passerby tells Aoyama that the police found three extra fingers, an extra ear, and an extra tongue when they recovered the body; Aoyama has hallucinations of the body pieces. Meanwhile, Asami goes to Aoyama's house and finds a photo of his late wife. Enraged, she drugs his liquor. Aoyama comes home, pours a drink, and begins feeling the effects of the drug. A flashback shows that the sack in Asami's apartment contains a man missing both feet, his tongue, one ear and three fingers on one hand. He crawls out and begs for food. Asami vomits into a dog dish and places it on the floor for the man. The man sticks his face into the vomit and hungrily consumes it.

Aoyama collapses from the drug. Asami injects him with a paralytic agent that leaves his nerves alert, and tortures him with needles. She tells him that, just like everyone else in her life, he has failed to love only her. She cannot tolerate his feelings for anyone else, even his own son. She inserts needles into his eyes, giggling as she does so. She then cuts off his left foot with piano wire. Shigehiko returns home as Asami begins to cut off Aoyama's other foot, and she chases him upstairs. As she attacks the boy, Aoyama appears to suddenly wake up back in the hotel after he and Asami made love, and his current ordeal seems to be only a nightmare; Aoyama proposes marriage and Asami accepts. As he falls back asleep in the hotel, he returns to find his son struggling with Asami. Shigehiko kicks her downstairs, breaking her neck. Aoyama tells his son to call the police and stares at the dying Asami, who repeats what she said on their second date about her excitement on seeing him again.

Cast

Themes

Audition has been read as both feminist and misogynist.[6] Miike has stated that when he met journalists in the United Kingdom and France, he found they commented on the films feminist themes when Asami gets revenge on the men in her life.[7] The film sets up Aoyama with traits and behaviours which could be considered sexist: a list of criteria for his bride to meet and the phoney audition format he uses to search for future wife.[8] The torture sequence where the mutilation of Aoyama can be seen as revenge for Asami.[8] A review in the Los Angeles Times described the film as "ultimately about the male fear of women and female sexuality" noting that women are blatantly objectified in the first half of the film and in the second half Asami "goes on to redress this imbalance" where she becomes an "avenging angel".[9] A review in American Cinematographer stated that one plausible approach is that the final act is a representation of Aoyama's guilt at his mistreatment of women and desire to dominate them. Aoyama develops a paranoid fantasy of an attacking object: because he harbours sadistic thoughts towards women, he develops the fear that the object will retaliate.[10] Contrary to this, Miike has stated that the final torture scenes in the film are not a paranoid nightmare dreamed up by Aoyama.[11] Tom Mes, author of Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike has argued against the feminist portrayal of the film, noting that Asami is not motivated by an ideological agenda and that acknowledging that she takes revenge on a man who has lied to her, would be ignoring that Asami has also lied to Aoyama.[8] Asami states "I want to tell you everything" during the torture scene, implying she had not been truthful before.[8] Mes also notes that avenging angel theme contradicts Asami's actions as one of her previous victims, a manager, was also female.[8][12]

In Audition, the character of Asami is a victim of child abuse. Colette Balmain in her book Introduction to Japanese Horror Film described Asami as "just one more face of the wronged women in Japanese culture [...] They are victims of repression and oppression, and only death and loneliness remain for them"[13] Robin Wood (Film International) wrote that through her child abuse, Asami is taught that love and pain must be inseparable.[14] The audience is led to identify with Asami through this victimization and also what Stephen LeDrew described as a "patriarchal Japanese society".[10] Elvis Mitchell (The New York Times) stated that the theme of the film was "the objectification of women in Japanese society and the mirror-image horror of retribution it could create."[15] Tom Mes suggested that these themes can be witnessed in the scene where Asami feeds her mutilated prisoner and then turns into the childhood version of herself and pets him like a dog.[16] Mes concludes that this is done to suggest how what happened in Asami's life made her the violent adult she would eventually become.[16]

Production

Development

The film was adapted from Ryu Murakami's (pictured) novel of the same name

The main production company behind Audition was a Japanese company called Omega Project.[17] Omega were originally behind the production of Hideo Nakata's film Ring which was great success in the Japan and later the rest of Asia.[18] Omega had problems setting up the release of Ring in Korea and had the company AFDF Korea work on a Korean re-adapted the Ring.[19][2][3] The following year in 1998, Omega partnered again with AFDF Korea and other production companies including Creators Company Connection, Film Face, and Bodysonic to make the adaptation of Ryū Murakami's 1997 novel Audition.[19] When Omega began work on adapting the novel, they did not want to do another ghost story or have supernatural elements as Ring had done already.[20] To attempt something different, they hired a screenwriter (Daisuke Tengan) and director (Takashi Miike) who were not known for working in horror films.[20] Tengan was known as a screenwriter working with his father Shohei Imamura on films including The Eel, which had previously won the Palme d'Or in 1997.[21][22]

Pre-production

To create Audition, Miike worked with many of his collaborators such as cinematographer Hideo Yamamoto.[23] Miike spoke of his cinematographer stating that Yamamoto was "very sensitive towards death. Both of his parents died very young, and it's not something he talks about much."[11] Miike also noted that he felt that Yamamoto was "living in fear, and that sensibility comes through in his work. It's something I want to make the most of."[11] The film's score was composed by Kōji Endō.[2] Endō had previously composer work for Miike on films such as The Bird People in China.[24] Yasushi Shimamura was the film editor on Audition.[1] Shimamura has worked with Miike as early as Lady Hunter: Prelude To Murder in 1991.[25]

Actor Ryo Ishibashi wanted to work with Miike and agreed to the role.[26] He commented that despite not being a great fan of horror films, he enjoyed scripts, such as Audition that showcased human nature.[26] Model Eihi Shiina was cast in the film as Asami. Shiina career was first as a model and began acting after being offered a film role while she was on holidays.[27][28] Shiina's first learned about Miike through his film Blues Harp, which made her interested in meeting the director.[29] When Shiina first met Miike, they began talking about her opinions on love and relationships.[30][31] On their second meeting, Miike asked Shiina to play the part of Asami.[32]

Shiina thought that her opinions and feelings expressed to Miike were why she was cast in the role and tried to play the role as naturally as she could without going over the top.[33]

Production

Audition was shot in approximately three weeks, which was about one more week than usual for Miike's films at the time.[34] Scenes such as Asami's apartment and the restaurant scenes were shot on location in real apartments and restaurants respectively.[35][36] Outdoors scenes were shot in Tokyo, along intersections in Omotesandō.[37]

The torture scene at the end of the film did not initially contain Asami's lines of "Kiri-kiri-kiri"[38][39] Shiina was initially whispering her lines in this scene and discussed with Miike where they decided that having her say these lines would make the scene scarier.[39] Ishibashi found that Miike was "having so much fun with that scene", and that Miike was especially excited when Ishibashi's character's legs get cut off.[40]

Release

Director Takashi Miike won two awards for Audition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival

Audition had its world premiere on October 2, 1999 at the Vancouver International Film Festival.[4][41] Audition premièred as part of a program of modern Japanese horror films at the festival, including Ring, Ring 2, and Shikoku.[42] Audition was shown as a double feature with Shinya Tsukamoto's Gemini.[42] Audition was screened at the 29th Rotterdam International Film Festival in Holland in early 2000.[3][6] The film was screened along with Miike's other films Dead or Alive and Ley Lines.[3][6] Tom Mes stated that Audition received the most attention at Rotterdam, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize for the best film out of competition.[6][43][44] The FIPRESCI award was given by a jury exists of international film journalists, who grant this award during Rotterdam International Film Festival with only films not in competition qualify for the award.[43] Audition also won the KNF Award, voted by the circle of Circle of Dutch Film journalists.[45]

Audition was released theatrically in Japan on March 3, 2000.[2] It received its American premier at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2000.[3][46] The film was screened theatrically outside of festivals in the United States in early August 2001.[47] In the United Kingdom, Audition received screenings in 2000 at both FrightFest and the Raindance Film Festival.[47] It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom by Metro Tartan in mid-March 2001.[47] It was the first film of Miike's to be released theatrically in the United Kingdom.[47]

Home video

Audition was released on DVD in the United States by Chimera on June 4, 2002[48] The DVD included an interview with Miike and a documentary on the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles.[48][49] A new DVD was released by Lionsgate in 2005 dubbed as the "uncut special edition".[48][49] This release included an interview with Ryu Murakama, a selected scene commentary from Miike, and a clip from Bravo's The 100 Scariest Movie Moments.[48][49] IGN gave a negative review of the 2006 DVD, finding that the video was "overcompressed to the point that a distracting, shifting blockiness frequently in backgrounds that draws the eye away from the actors."[50] IGN concluded that the "overall image quality is soft and fuzzy, with weak black levels, murky shadow areas and less-than-impressive color saturation."[50] On October 6, 2009, Shout! Factory released a DVD and Blu-ray release of the film that featured an introduction by Miike and actress Eihi Shiina, a full audio commentary from Miike and screenwriter Daisuke Tengan and a documentary featuring the cast.[48][51]

Audition was released in the United Kingdom on DVD by Tartan Video on June 28, 2004.[48][49] The disc contained an interview with Miike and liner notes by Joe Cornish.[48] Sight & Sound reviewed this release, stating that the audio and visual presentation was "exemplary" while noting that the interview with Miike was the only noteworthy bonus feature on the disc.[52] The film was later released by Arrow Video on February 29, 2016.[53] Arrow Video release was exclusively restored in 2K resolution and was scanned from a 35mm interpositive.[54]

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 80%, based on 70 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "An audacious, unsettling Japanese horror film from director Takashi Miike, Audition entertains as both a grisly shocker and a psychological drama."[55] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 69 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[56] Variety gave the film a positive review.[1] The review referred to the film as a "truly shocking horror film" that was "made even more disturbing by its haunting beauty."[1] Sight and Sound referred to the film as a "slow-burning but ultimately devastating horror pic" and that "It's a virtuoso piece of film-making with much more subtlety and depth than Miike's other films."[57] The Hollywood Reporter described the film as "One of the most audacious, iconoclastic horror films in recent years"[58] Mark Schilling (The Japan Times) praised the acting of Shiina and Ishibashi, but noted that "Among the film's few irritants is a smarmy, snarly bad guy turn by Renji Ishibashi as Asami's wheelchair-bound ballet instructor. He is a reminder of where too many other Miike films have headed -- straight for the video racks."[59] The review concluded that "Miike is ready for a bigger role -- as one of the leading Japanese directors of his generation."[59]

In the early 2010s, Time Out conducted a poll with several authors, directors, actors and critics who have worked within the horror genre to vote for their top horror films.[60] Audition placed at number 18 on their top 100 list.[61]

Writers for Variety, the Hollywood Reporter and Sight & Sound all emphasized the film's final scene. The Hollywood Reporter stated that "Miike lulls the audience into a state of complacency with a studied, slow-moving, lightly comic first half before delivering a gruesome final section that makes Stephen King's "Misery" look wholesome." and that the ending was "all the more shocking for the clinical way in which it is presented."[58] Variety stated that it's only at the ending of the film that Audition "breaks out of creepfest ghetto."[1] " In his essay on themes in Audition, Robin Wood stated that most of Miike films are disturbing for "what they have to tell us about the state of contemporary civilization; they are not in the least disturbing in themselves, operating on some fantasy level of annihilation, with 'comic-book' violence."[62] In comparison, he stated that Audition is "authentically disturbing, and infinitely more horrifying: the first time I watched it - on DVD, at home, after warnings I had received - I was repeatedly tempted, through the last half hour, to turn it off."[62] Wood compared the film to Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, stating that the film was "almost as unwatchable as the news reels - of Auschwitz, of the innocent victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Vietnam, victims of Nazi or American dehumanization".[62]

On the film's success with Western audiences, Miike states that he was not surprised, but that he had "no idea what goes on in the minds of people in the West and I don't pretend to know what their tastes are. And I don't want to start thinking about that. It's nice that they liked my movie, but I'm not going to start deliberately worrying about why or what I can do to make it happen again"[63] Actress Eihi Shiina stated that in Japan, only a certain type of film fan would watch Audition, while the film was seen by many more people overseas which she attributed to "good timing".[64]

Aftermath and influence

After the release of Audition, Miike was going to adapt Murakami's novel Coin Locker Babies, but the project failed to find financing to get started.[65]

Audition has been described as an influence on "torture porn".[66][67][68] The term was invented by David Edelstein to describe films such as Saw, The Devil's Rejects and Wolf Creek that offer "titillating and shocking" scenes that push the audience to the margins of depravity for them to "feel something".[69] Audition influenced American directors such as Eli Roth.[70] Roth stated that Audition influenced him to make his film Hostel, with Miike even making a cameo as a satisfied customer of the kidnappers who let customers torture their victims.[66][70] Time opined that Audition was different from other torture porn films as "unlike Saw and its imitators in the genre of torture porn, Audition doesn't go for gore-ific money shots. Miike’s films live inside their characters, taking the temperature of their longings, the ridiculous ambitions they chase so obsessively and their need to experience the extreme to prove they’re alive."[71] Audition was listed by twin directors Jen Soska and Sylvia Soska as one of their favourite horror films, and that it was an influence on their film American Mary.[72][73] The directors noted the character of Asami, stating that an audience generally sees "female characters in a horror film as the helpless victim. This film leads you in one direction, skillfully hinting at a darker storyline for the otherwise meek and slight Asami until the final 15 minutes where we are introduced to a merciless monster. A perfect personification of the irrational rage of a woman scorned."[72][73]

"I'm just curious how it'd look like if someone tried to remake my work. But I really believe that it's hard to remake of any of my work."

- Miike on being asked about his films being remade in Hollywood[74]

Deadline reported that executive producer Mario Kassar had begun work on an English language adaptation of Audition in 2014.[75] Richard Gray was brought on to serve as the remake's director and screenwriter.[76] The film's storyline will be taken from the Murakami novel opposed to an adaptation of Miike's film and the film will take place in North America.[75][77] The new film is set to include scenes and locations included in the novel that were not in the Miike's film.[77]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Eisner, Ken (October 31, 1999). "Review: ‘Audition’". Variety. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Mes 2006, p. 391.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Vitagraph Films". Vitagraph Films. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
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  6. 1 2 3 4 Mes 2006, p. 181.
  7. ↑ Miike, Takashi; Tengan, Daisuke. Commentary by Takashi Miike and Daisuke Tengan (Blu ray (Disc 1)). Arrow Films. Event occurs at 1:02:50. FCD1208/1209.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Mes 2006, p. 189.
  9. ↑ Lim, Dennis (October 4, 2009). "'Audition': A Nightmare With No Escape". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  10. 1 2 LeDrew, Stephen (January 2006). "Jokes and Their Relation to the Uncanny: The Comic, the Horrific, and Pleasure in Audition and Romero's Dead films". PSYART (University of Florida).
  11. 1 2 3 Pizzello, Chris (September 2002). "DVD Playback: "Audition"". American Cinematographer. Vol. 83 no. 9. p. 18. ISSN 0002-7928.
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  13. ↑ Balmain 2008, p. 112.
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  16. 1 2 Mes 2006, p. 188.
  17. ↑ Mes, Tom. Commentary by Tom Mes (Blu ray (Disc 1)). Arrow Films. Event occurs at 0:01:10. FCD1208/1209.
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  58. 1 2 Scheck, Frank (August 21, 2001). "'Audition' Casts Scary Net.". Hollywood Reporter. Vol. 369 no. 34. p. 143.
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