Originally released as a Japanese motion picture in 1999.

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Based on the novel by Ryū Murakami.

Special features of these DVDs: audio commentary with director Takeshi Miike and screenwriter Daisuke Tengan ; new interviews with cast members Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Renji Ishibashi and Ren Osugi ; international trailers ; booklet essay by Tom Mes ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital ; scene selections.

Cinematography, Hideo Yamamoto ; editor, Yasushi Shimamura ; music composed by Koji Endo ; special makeup effects, Yuichi Matsui.

Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Miyuki Matsuda, Toshie Negishi, Tetsu Sawaki, Ken Mitsuishi, Shigeru Saiki, Ren Ohsugi, Renji Ishibashi, Jun Kunimura.

Audition is a deeply disturbing meditation on the war between the sexes masquerading as a horror film. Aoyama is a lonely Japanese film producer and widower who lives with his teenage son. One evening his son tells him he's starting to look old, and that he should remarry. With the help of pal Yoshikawa he stages a film audition, ostensibly to cast a new film, but really to find a new wife. Smitten by willowy Asami--whose résumé tells of a terrible injury that destroyed her ballet career--Aoyama falls in love and quickly proposes. Love may be blind, but Aoyama is about to discover how dangerous blindness can be. Aoyama failed to see that during their initial meeting, Asami was auditioning him, too. Unfortunately, he failed the tryout.

Not rated. Warning: contains strong graphic violence. Restricted by Collection Developer, July 2012.

DVD.

In Japanese ; subtitled in English.