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Midnight Eye review: Audition (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Audition was based on a novel by Ryu Murakami, who - even though a number of his books haven been translated into English - is best known outside Japan as the director of the art house hit Tokyo Decadence (Topazu, 1991). |
 | | Despite the fact that it was originated by someone else, Audition's story of a middle-aged, widowed tv-producer's search for a bride through the means of a fake audition for young actresses, once again adheres to the Miike trademark of being both attractive and repellent, fascinating and disgusting. |
 | | During the audition scenes, he watches somewhat uncomfortably at the procession of young women parading in front of him, while his colleague, who suggested the idea of the audition to him, goes through it all without a hint of emotion. |
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