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Audition
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She always gets a part.
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.
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura, Tetsu Sawaki, Renji Ishibashi
Cast: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura, Tetsu Sawaki, Renji Ishibashi
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Audition (1999), aka Ōdishon aka オーディション, directed by Takashi Miike, V2 Arrow remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Japanese theatrical 5.1, three commentary tracks, and subtitles in five languages.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/
Video encoded in two-pass 15.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Subtitles converted to SRT.
Note : Another update of an old encode of mine, in addition to higher bitrate and improved encoding parameters, this adds an extra commentary track, and several more subtitle languages.
Takashi Miike's notorious international breakthrough has been noted for the gradual tonal shift from the innocent, but sad and somewhat ominous early parts of the movie to the over the top shocking violence of the ending, and that's probably one of the reasons it works so well. On the other hand, I think some of the storytelling, especially revealing a lot of important information in an extended dream sequence, is a bit lazy, and while the cinematography in itself is nice, the image quality is grainy and kind of ugly. Still, performances are uniformly great, the ending delivers a gut punch, and all the attention Miike received for it was well deserved all in all. The cast includes Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, and Jun Kunimura, who we last saw being extremely creepy in the wonderful The Wailing.
The story is simple, widower Aoyama is encouraged by his son to find a girlfriend and remarry, and his film producer friend Yoshikawa suggests setting up a fake audition to find girls for Aoyama to date. Aoyama is immediately drawn to the quiet, formal, and mysterious Asami, who seems to be the perfect woman, but something about her seems off to Yoshikawa, and all her references turn up as dead ends. Still, Aoyama persists, they start dating, but little does he know where he's going to end up when she feels he doesn't keep up his promise of loving only her...
This BluRay is good quality, but as mentioned above, the original image is grainy and kind of ugly, I'm assuming this is a conscious creative decision of some kind. The 5.1 track sounds good, the director/screenwriter commentary is interesting, the Miike biographer commentary is perhaps a bit dull. In general, all you could ask for.
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IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/
Video encoded in two-pass 15.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Subtitles converted to SRT.
Note : Another update of an old encode of mine, in addition to higher bitrate and improved encoding parameters, this adds an extra commentary track, and several more subtitle languages.
Takashi Miike's notorious international breakthrough has been noted for the gradual tonal shift from the innocent, but sad and somewhat ominous early parts of the movie to the over the top shocking violence of the ending, and that's probably one of the reasons it works so well. On the other hand, I think some of the storytelling, especially revealing a lot of important information in an extended dream sequence, is a bit lazy, and while the cinematography in itself is nice, the image quality is grainy and kind of ugly. Still, performances are uniformly great, the ending delivers a gut punch, and all the attention Miike received for it was well deserved all in all. The cast includes Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, and Jun Kunimura, who we last saw being extremely creepy in the wonderful The Wailing.
The story is simple, widower Aoyama is encouraged by his son to find a girlfriend and remarry, and his film producer friend Yoshikawa suggests setting up a fake audition to find girls for Aoyama to date. Aoyama is immediately drawn to the quiet, formal, and mysterious Asami, who seems to be the perfect woman, but something about her seems off to Yoshikawa, and all her references turn up as dead ends. Still, Aoyama persists, they start dating, but little does he know where he's going to end up when she feels he doesn't keep up his promise of loving only her...
This BluRay is good quality, but as mentioned above, the original image is grainy and kind of ugly, I'm assuming this is a conscious creative decision of some kind. The 5.1 track sounds good, the director/screenwriter commentary is interesting, the Miike biographer commentary is perhaps a bit dull. In general, all you could ask for.
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