Audition

Blu-ray 2000

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition for a phony film, 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 and the widower becomes drawn into her sadistic and vengeful world.

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Description:

1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
digital optical
video file DVD video

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Known in Japanese as: ¿?dishon
Ttitle on container: Takashi Miike's audition

Notes:

Based on a novel by Ryu Murakami
Brand new 2K restoration of original vault elements; Audio commentary with director Takashi Miike and screenwriter Daisuke Tengan; New audio commentary by Miike biographer Tom Mes examining the film and its source novel; Introduction by Miike; Ties That Bind: a brand new interview with Miike; Interviews with stars Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Renji Ishibashi and Ren Osugi; Damaged Romance: an appreciation by Japanese cinema historian Tony Rayns; Trailers; gallery
Originally released as a motion picture in 2000
Cinematography, Yamamoto Hideo ; music, End¿? K¿?ji ; editor, Shimamura Yasushi ; executive producers, Yokohama Toyoyuki, Yamaji Hiroshi
Ishibashi Ry¿?, Shiina Eihi, Sawaki Tetsu, Matsuda Miyuki, Ishibashi Renji, Kunimura Jun
System requirements: Blu-ray player ; will not play on standard DVD players
Blu-ray, region A, aspect ratio 1.85:1, dts-HD 5.1 Master Audio; 1080 high definition
In Japanese with optional English subtitles

Control Number:

3203870

UPC:

760137220282

Other Authors:

AFDF-Korea (Firm), production company
Arrow Video (Firm), publsiher
Fukushima, Satoshi, film producer
Ishibashi, Renji, 1941- actor
Ishibashi, Ry¿?, 1956- actor
Matsuda, Miyuki, actor
Miike, Takashi, 1960- film director
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Murakami, Ry¿±, 1952- ¿?dishon
Omega Purojekuto, production company
Sawaki, Tetsu, 1982- actor
Shiina, Eihi, 1976- actor
Suyama, Akemi, film producer
Tengan, Daisuke, screenwriter

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