Audition [Limited Edition]
4.4 | 611 ratings
Price: 49.95
Last update: 03-30-2026
Product details
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 6.73 x 5.31 x 0.51 inches; 3.88 ounces
- Director : Takashi Miike
- Media Format : 4K
- Run time : 1 hour and 55 minutes
- Release date : June 16, 2026
- Actors : Eihi Shiina, Ryo Ishibashi, Tetsu Sawaki
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Arrow Video
- ASIN : B0GV4MTZJ6
- Best Sellers Rank:#14 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- Horror (Movies & TV)
- Customer Reviews:4.44.4 out of 5 stars(611)
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- Xavier I. Ucar ConteJESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH!!!OK, first, i'm a huge, gore/disturbing/splatter lover and I could say I seen it all...well, not all but alot, including real stomach destroyers like, the untold story, Dr lamb,Ebola,guinnea pig series, red to kill, all the gory eurohorror slashers italian cannibal and zombie films and lots of hardcore exploitation stuff like the Ilsa films, I spit on your grave, baise moi, I stand alone and many others...so, I have a strong stomach and a high toleranze level for disturbing, shocking and bloody imagery...but lord...this is SHOCKING!
I saw this movie on a movie screening at Rockport college of arts while I was getting my masters degree on dramatic filmmaking. I saw the ad for the audition, wich by the way, was completly diferent than the dvd cover and I thought it was some artistic film from Japan worth of watching.
I sat through the first 50 minutes of the film and I was very enetrtained by the slow paced love gone extremely bad love story. This first 50 where very visual and poetic, the characters were deep and thought provoking and the cinematography and the art direction were just stoning...then something when incredible wrong...this beautiful and slow paced movie was changing into a dark and depressing vortex of hallucinations, psychodelia and disturbing imagery and I had no clue of what was going on...then...for my confused attention to the film, the ending arrived......JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH was I shocked!!!
The Audition is not the most disturbing film in the world, but it's ending is very visual, graphic and dicturbing...I mean, I was pretty inpressed by it...and more than 80% of the theatre was quite upset and disgusted by it.-
Probably, the reason why I was so impressed and disturbed by it was that I walk into the film without knowing what I was about to watch. Nobody told me anything by it, I didn't knew it was suposed to be a "horror" film by any chance, so my mind wasn't expecting anything...So, I guess that if I happened to know what I was about to watch, I probably wouldn't like the movie ...Why? this is not your typical horror splatter film...the first 50 minutes of the movie has hardly any blood or disturbing imagery of any kind, but a slow, deep and thoughtfull sad love story about a widowed man trying to find a partner...so after the first 50..that when hell really break loose...and the ebding will disturb you so much, you wont believe it!...believe me...it was crude and shoking as hell!
Not the best movie I ever seen, but a great oportunity to watch a diferent film... and also pretty good!....so if you're a gore fan, fast forward the the first 60 minutes and you will find one of the must disturbing scenes in film history...get it and don't tell anyone what it's about...you will enjoy watching their horribly surprised faces - "jetboy77"A Must See ... and again ... and againTo simply reiterate the storyline of AUDITION would be an injustice ... This is a film that challenges and excites so many different emotions in the viewer, it really should be seen ... a few times .... The plot follows a good-natured but lonely widower ( Ryo Isibashi ), and his search to remarry .... He has a good job ( he works in the film industry), and a very good relationship with his son ( and dog :), yet the seven years that have passed since the death of his wife have left him alone and empty ... At the suggestion of a coworker / friend, he stages an "audition" for a new film project ... What none of the applicants realize is that the "new" film project is actually an old rejected script that is being used as a vehicle for our lonely widower to meet a perspective wife ..... What makes AUDITION a little difficult to reveiw is the fact that, more than with most films, too much info and knowledge of the plot will take away from the fun ... But that's not to say that this film isn't worth seeing many times: it IS ... I have seen it 3 times now, and I look forward to seeing it a fourth ... ok, back to the film ...Eihi Shiina is applicant #28, an extremely beautiful and shy 24 year woman ... Did I mention beautiful ??? How about mysterious ??? ... Above all, she is intelligent, with a very impressive screen presence ... And much to the delight of both Ryo and Eili, they hit it off ... So much so that our long suffering widower's flame for life is rekindled in such a way, his verve for dating and happiness outshines even his teenage son's ... At his point in the film, the story and tone turn 180 degrees ... .... What follows is so harrowing and so disturbing, and with each passing scene we the viewer think back to the set-up audition and inital giddiness of our happy couple as almost an entirely different film ... But it WORKS ... Not only that, but the way the film spins out of control only adds to it's overall impact, and leaves us feeling THAT MUCH MORE horrified .... At this point I will mention the film debut of actress Eihi Shiina, who give a performance nothing short of stunning and unforgettable ... It is very rare that an individual can induce feelings of such horror, yet leave the viewer feeling saddness and pity to the point of tears ... I can't say enough about this brilliant young actress ... While I highly recommend this film, I must say that if child abuse, amputation, or sadism and torture might leave you feeling offended or queasy, do not see this film ... But if you prefer an experience to a "movie", I can't recommend AUDITION enough ... It might have taken 40 years, but I think we've found someone who can give Norman Bates a run for his money :) ...