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'This shellshock of a film, featuring a now-legendary reversal of audience expectations, made Miike's name overseas as the leader of the short-lived "Asia Extreme" subgenre. Audition follows good-looking, nice guy TV producer and widower Aoyama as he begins to search for a new wife. When another producer friend suggests holding a casting call for a non-existent movie project, Aoyama is able to interview a wide variety of young women about their prospects for marriage, without them knowing his intentions. Unfortunately for him, Aoyama chooses icily beautiful, failed ballet dancer Asami, a mysterious woman with a violent past marked by abuse and…something else? The ultimate refutation of Japanese female submissiveness, and a grand statement on the way violence begets violence, Audition's now-infamous climax had American audiences literally running from cinemas during its theatrical run in 2001. If you've only seen it on home video, you haven't experienced the full power of this movie to turn a normal audience into a cowering cluster of jangling nerves!' Film Society Lincoln Center

R18+ | Medium level violence, Adult themes