Review #274: Audition (1999)
This review was originally written in October 2023. Gabe's Horror Movie October Review #28 - Audition (1999) Audition is a film about Shigeharu Aoyama, a widower who decides to find himself a new wife at the urging of his son. But being a hard-working executive-type, he doesn't have the time to go back out into the dating game- so he gets his friend, a film producer, to hold an audition for a fake movie, with the express purpose of instead finding Shigeharu the perfect woman to marry. He instantly falls for Asami, a mysterious and seemingly meek girl, and he becomes obsessed with making her his wife. But the more he tries to find out about her, the more things start to not add up, and the more danger Shigeharu gets himself into... This is a hard movie to watch, it has to be said. I saw this for the first time about a year ago- it was one of those movies I had on my watch list for years but never got around to- and it was hard to watch the first time, doubly so this time around....