Takashi Miikes' Audition......

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I like a good Korean or Japanese (J horror / K horror) horror film, and i eventually got round to watching Audition (Odishon) last night.

OH MY GOD!!!!

After the slow build up , where you wonder if you are actually watching a "chick" flick, all hell breaks loose!
"kitty kitty kitty"

Fu..ing Hell!!!!!

The torture scene has to be one of the most disturbing EVER! Made even more powerful, by the fact that you wondered if the film was anything more than a Fatal Attraction clone.

Can anyone tell me of a more disturbing or shocking climax to a film?
 
If you think Audition is horrible, you'd better steer clear of Dumplings.
I made it to the end of Audition, but Dumplings made me feel so ill I couldn't watch it (and Danny Dyer wasn't even in it!).:eek:
 
I saw Audition in a cinema and someone ran out screaming during the chicken wire bit. Has to go down as a classic if it can do that to people.
 
Audition had an incredbily slow build up but is a pretty tense movie.

Ichi The Killer and Dead or Alive are good for a laugh. Miikes film's should never be taken too seriously.

Dead or alive synopsis:

'This movie has everything, noodles exploding out of peoples belly, strippers drowning in pools of their own s#@%, beastial porn, dismemberment, explosive gunfights, h@m@s, jugular spray, clowns, weirdos, perverts, freaks and the longest line of coke ever.'

Also another disturbing movie by Miike is Vistor Q. Very strange one, that.
 
oh my goodness! Dead or Alive!!!! thats one for the vaults! its wonderful! hatever you do - if you havent seen it -you must make it until the end....dont give up watching it. its fantastic. DoA 2 &3 are also out.

This forum has certainly got me keyed up to watch Dumplings or Gaau Ji. I must rent that one.

Audition was very good. in fact - most Takashi Miike films Ive seen have been far from excellent. apart from The Happiness of the Katakuris. thats not very good at all! :(

Anyone else spot his cameo in Hostel? :)
 
It's about a rich women looking for eternal youth by eating dumplings made to a secret recipe by a local witch/nutter.
A good film but I couldn't sit through it. Not to be watched on a full stomach.
It was on Film 4 a couple of months ago.
 
Spookily I was just thinking about Audition this morning!

When we went to see it the usherette wished us luck, that should've warned us! It's the only film I have ever wanted to walk out of as I was so upset by it. There were too many people to climb over. My husband then took it upon himself to buy it on DVD so I made a sharp exit about 2/3 through it. He watched the rest and couldn't believe he'd forgotten how disturbing it was.

I love Japanese horror but why does Hollywood always wreck it when they remake it? Ringu was far scarier than The Ring and Ju-On better than The Grudge.

I can't imagine a remake of Audition, they would sanatise it too much. Having sad that I could imagine someone like Harvey Keitel as the male lead...
 
I watched 'Dumplings' and didn't bat an eyelid, zero squeem content as far as I was concerned, and you could see the pay-off coming a mile away. 'Ichi the Killer' is pretty rubbish, to be honest, and I thought 'Audition' was terminally dull, not relieved by the torture at the end.

I liked 'Dead or Alive' (not to be confused with the cheesy video game spin-off), mainly because it was so off the wall, but in a funny way. The funniest thing on the DVD was probably the interview with the po-faced director wibbling on about artistic integrity and his desire to make a deliberately bad film just to teach his financial backers a lesson. Wonderful stuff. Man's an A-1 nutter, but I'm glad there's room for nutters in the film industry.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
I wasn't too keen on Audition, the final 10 minutes weren't worth waiting through a pretty boring film for. It still made me cringe, but I wouldn't make the effort to watch it again.

Ichi the Killer was quite good, although the violence is so over the top that it loses it's power somewhat. Very manga-esque, with a very weird ending.





Requiem for a Dream. That has to be the most disturbing film I've ever seen, with a climax that left me numb.

Or, for shock value, Irreversible. The beginning, which is actually the end, is one of the worst film scenes I've seen.
 
I was getting my Takeshi and Takashi's mixed up there. I thought you were all talking about the Blind SworRABman, Takeshi Kitano who played the camp leader and father of the surviving girl in Battle Royale.

Check out Zatoichi if you like gory, funny and excellently coordinated martial arts.
 
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