| Plot |
| Picked as one of the top films of 2001 in a poll of 40 film critics, Audition has been called "a well crafted, visually deft piece of grand guignol" (Nick James, Sight and Sound). Deceptively innocent at first, Audition finds Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) middle aged widower of many years, urged by his teenage son and film producer friend Yoshikawa devises a plan to hold a phony audition for a non-existent film. After interviewing 30 young hopefuls, Aoyama falls for the demure and alluring actress Asami (fashion model Eihi Shiina in her film debut), a former ballerina with a suspicious past. Their courtship veers from polite romance to psycho-nightmare in the bat of a pierced eye-lid, realizing "a sadistic breach of contract between filmmaker and audience of which Hitchcock could only dream." (Richard Falcon, Sight and Sound) |
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