Ôdishon (1999)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.4/10   

Réalisateur:

Takashi Miike

Writers:

Ryû Murakami (novel)
Daisuke Tengan (screenplay)

Release Date:

3 mars 2000 (Japan)

Genre:

Drame | Horror | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Accroche:

She always gets a part

Plot:

Widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all...

Plot Keywords:

Audition | Widower | Friend | Sack | Producer

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

The ideal date movie! … Or maybe not?

Ensemble

Ryo Ishibashi	...	Shigeharu Aoyama
Eihi Shiina	...	Asami Yamazaki
Tetsu Sawaki	...	Shigehiko Aoyama
Jun Kunimura	...	Yasuhisa Yoshikawa
Renji Ishibashi	...	Old man in wheelchair
Miyuki Matsuda	...	Ryoko Aoyama
Toshie Negishi	...	Rie
Ren Osugi	...	Shimada
Shigeru Saiki	...	Toastmaster
Ken Mitsuishi	...	Director
Yuriko Hirooka	...	Michiyo Yanagida
Fumiyo Kohinata	...	TV station presenter
Misato Nakamura	...	Misuzu Takagi
Yuuto Arima	...	Shigehiko as a child
Ayaka Izumi	...	Asami as a child
Nattsu Tanabashi	...	Hotel front desk
Kimiko Tachibana	...	FM announcer
Tatsuo Endo	...	Doctor (as Tatsuo Endô)
Koshio Jindôji	...	Nurse
Kanji Tsuda	...	Bartender
Party	...	Gangster
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Takako Katoh		(as Takako Katô)
Yayoi Ôtsu
Saori Tachibana

Réalisé par
Takashi Miike

Scénaristes
Ryû Murakami		(novel)
Daisuke Tengan		(screenplay)

Produit par
Satoshi Fukushima	....	producer
Jun'ichi Shindô	....	planner
Akemi Suyama	....	producer
Toyoyuki Yokohama	....	executive producer

Musique originale
Kôji Endô

Image
Hideo Yamamoto

Montage
Yasushi Shimamura

Création des décors
Tatsuo Ozeki

Création des costumes
Tomoe Kumagai

Maquillage
Yuuichi Matsui	....	special makeup effects artist

Directeur de production
Takeshi Suzuki	....	production manager

Assistant réalisateur
Bunmei Katô	....	assistant director

Technicien du son
Kenji Shibazaki	....	sound effects editor

Production Companies

• AFDF
• Creators Company Connection
• Omega Project (as Omega Project Inc.)

Distributors

• American Cinematheque (2001) (USA) (theatrical)
• Art Port (Japan) (DVD)
• Art Port (Japan) (VHS)
• Audio Visual Enterprises (Greece) (video)
• Bir Film (2004) (Turkey) (theatrical)
• DeA Planeta Home Entertainment (2003) (Spain) (DVD)
• Filmfreak Distributie (2001) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Gateno Films (2003) (Peru) (all media)
• Impuls Home Entertainment (2003) (Switzerland) (DVD)
• Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment (2005) (USA) (DVD) (North America)
• Maple Pictures (2005) (Canada) (DVD)
• Metro Tartan Distribution Ltd. (2000) (UK) (theatrical)
• One World Media (2002) (Germany) (video)
• Palisades-Tartan Acquisitions (2008) (UK) (DVD)
• Primer Plano Film Group (2003) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Rapid Eye Movies (2001) (Germany) (theatrical)
• SBP (2004) (Argentina) (DVD)
• SBP (2004) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Sagittaire Films (2002) (France) (theatrical)
• Siren Visual Entertainment (2002) (Australia) (DVD)
• Siren Visual Entertainment (2007) (New Zealand) (DVD)
• Tartan Video (2004) (UK) (DVD) (collector's edition)
• Tartan Video (200?) (UK) (VHS)
• Universe Laser & Video Co. Ltd. (200?) (Hong Kong) (DVD)
• Vitagraph Films (2001) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Xenix Filmdistribution (2001-2002) (Switzerland) (theatrical)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Audition (International: English title) (UK)
Oodishon (Japan) (alternative transliteration)
Audition (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence/torture and sexuality.

Durée:

115 min | USA:113 min (R-rated version)

Pays:

South Korea | Japan

Langue:

Japonais

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Son:

DTS-Stereo | Dolby SR

Classification:

Sweden:15 | Chile:14 | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Singapore:R21 (cut) | Portugal:M/16 (orginal rating) | Portugal:M/18 (DVD rating) | Belgium:KNT | Argentina:18 | Australia:MA (cable rating) | Australia:R (original rating) | Canada:R | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-18 | France:-16 | Germany:18 | Hong Kong:III | Ireland:18 | Italy:VM14 | Japan:R-18 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R18 | Norway:18 | Spain:18 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Zurich) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | USA:R (cut) | USA:Unrated

Company:

AFDF

Anecdotes:

When the film was screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2000 it had a record number of walkouts. At the Swiss premiere someone passed out and needed emergency room attention.

Guillemet:

Asami Yamazaki: This wire can cut through meat and bone easily.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in S&Man (2006)

The ideal date movie! … Or maybe not?

Everybody faces this situation in his/her life sooner or later. You only just started a relationship and you are about to watch your first movie together. Personally you wouldn't mind a fair portion of violence and chills, but you suspect and worry that the other half prefers a slow and story-driven film with the emphasis on character development. But you needn't worry about this any longer, as Takashi Miike's "Audition" can perfectly satisfy both extremes. At least, theoretically speaking it can! This unforgettable and undeniable Japanese cult monument unfolds as a stylish and slow – better make VERY slow – moving romance drama, yet gradually but surely turns into a stomach-churning and nerve-tangling paranoia thriller with one of the most astonishingly engrossing climaxes ever captured on film. After seven years of living as a widower and devoting everything to raising his son, Aoyama wishes to remarry. A befriended movie-director wants to help Aoyama with meeting new women and arranges auditions for a non-existent movie. Aoyama immediately falls for the beautiful ex-ballet dancer Asami and carefully begins dating her. She's a beautiful young girl, but extremely introvert and mysterious. Aoyama's life subsequently turns into a psychological nightmare, yet the film's main strongpoint is how Miiki never fully reveals whether this girl is a lethal psychopath out for vengeance against the entire male race or that all the horror exclusively spawns from the protagonist's guilt and paranoid mindset. "Audition" is a truly strange and unique film. Miiki almost effortlessly seems to combine ambiances and elements that you always considered impossible to combine. At several moments during the first hour of the film, when the relationship between the two lead characters laboriously develops, you really wonder yourself how such a sober and melodramatic love story could possibly transgress into a reputedly shocking horror film, but it does! And how! The final ten-fifteen minutes are guaranteed to make you cringe and crawl in your seat and, I swear, you'll never look at a piano the same way again. I definitely also wouldn't advise this film if you already have a phobia for needles. Right from the opening sequences, Miiki effectively creates an intense atmosphere of depression and disturbance and maintains it throughout the entire film. He could also clearly rely on highly skilled and professional cinematographers, editors and production designers. The music is stupendous and the performances of both lead actor Ryo Ishibashi and Eihi Shiina are damn near perfect. This was Takashi Miiki's big international breakthrough achievement, and the least you could say is that he deserved it!