Audition
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Takashi Miike Run Time: 115 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2000 Language: Japanese
Starring: Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi, Ryo Ishibashi, Tetsu Sawaki
Party Like It’s 1999 takes a twisted turn with Audition, Takashi Miike’s unsettling horror drama.
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.
Disturbing audiences with its psychological narrative and moments of graphic violence, Audition is a high point of modern J-horror.