Understanding Audition (1999) | A Deeper Meaning

What does 1999’s Japanese Horror called Audition mean?

Takashi Miike’s renowned horror classic Audition is about a widowed husband called Shigeharu Aoyama who puts out a casting call for women to audition for a fake radio show.

But the true intention wasn’t to put together a drama but instead for Shigeharu to find a new wife.

In the process of weeding out the applicants, Shigeharu immediately falls for a young 24 year old woman called Asami.

Her application was everything that Shigeharu was looking for, she was ambitious and classy.

But unbeknownst to him, Asami is a mysterious character that has a shady past. We get to see throughout the movie that she is a killer and loves to torutre her victims.

And unluckily for Shigeharu, he gets that full treatment.

Audition is a movie that reminds me of David Fincher’s Gone Girl, it has that same style of uneasiness and tension.

And that really plays well in this movie because it is a slow build up. We mostly follow Shigeharu and Asami’s relationship.

Nothing sinister happens, you might get a snippet here and there but nothing to get you off your seat.

But whilst watching this movie, I was trying to understand why this movie was made?

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