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{{Infobox film
| name           = Audition
| image          = Audition-1999-poster.jpg
| alt            = Theatrical poster Japanese poster featuring actors Ryo Ishibashi and Eihi Shiina
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| native_name    = <!--(for non-English films: film's name in its native language)-->
| director       = [[Takashi Miike]]
| screenplay     = Daisuke Tengan
| based_on       = {{based on|''[[Audition (Murakami novel)|Audition]]''|[[Ryu Murakami]]}}
| producer       = {{plainlist|
* Satoshi Fukushima
* Akemi Suyama
}}
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* [[Ryo Ishibashi]]
* [[Eihi Shiina]]
* [[Jun Kunimura]]
* [[Miyuki Matsuda]]
* [[Toshie Negishi]]
* [[Tetsu Sawaki]]
* Shigeru Saiki
* [[Ken Mitsuishi]]
* [[Ren Osugi]]
* [[Renji Ishibashi]]
}}
| cinematography = Hideo Yamamoto
| editing        = Yasushi Shimamura
| music          = Kōji Endō
| studio         = {{plainlist|
* Omega Project
* Creators Company Connection
* Film Face
* AFDF Korea
* Bodysonic
}}
| distributor    = 
| released       = {{Film date|1999|10|2|[[Vancouver International Film Festival|VIFF]]|2000|3|3|Japan}}
| runtime        = 113 minutes
| country        = Japan
| language       = Japanese
| budget         = 
| gross          = $131,296 (U.S.)
}}
{{nihongo|'''''Audition'''''|オーディション|Ōdishon}} is a 1999 Japanese [[psychological horror]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The 23 best psychological horror movies ranked, from Smile to Psycho |url=https://ew.com/best-psychological-horror-movies-ranked-11832195 |website=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=20 February 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251024185942/https://ew.com/best-psychological-horror-movies-ranked-11832195 |archive-date=24 October 2025}}</ref> film directed by [[Takashi Miike]] and written by Daisuke Tengan, who adapted it from [[Ryu Murakami]]'s 1997 [[Audition (Murakami novel)|novel of the same name]]. It follows a middle-aged widower ([[Ryo Ishibashi]]) who enlists the help of his film producer friend ([[Jun Kunimura]]) to stage fake auditions in order to meet a new girlfriend, only to find that the young woman he chooses ([[Eihi Shiina]]) has a dark past.

The film was originally a project of the Japanese company Omega Project, who wanted to make another horror film after the financial success of ''[[Ring (1998 film)|Ring]]'' (1998). The company purchased the rights to Murakami's book and sought Miike and Tengan for an adaptation.{{sfn|Eisner|1999}}{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=391}}{{sfn|Vitagraph Films|ref=theatricalVita}} The cast and crew consisted primarily of previous Miike collaborators, with the exception of Shiina, who had worked as a model prior to making her acting debut in ''Audition''. The film was shot in [[Tokyo]] over a three-week period.

''Audition'' premiered with a few other Japanese horror films at the [[Vancouver International Film Festival]], but received increased attention when screened at the 2000 [[International Film Festival Rotterdam|Rotterdam International Film Festival]], where it received the [[International Federation of Film Critics|FIPRESCI Prize]] and the KNF Award. Following a theatrical release in Japan, the film continued to play at festivals and had theatrical releases in the United States and United Kingdom, followed by several home media releases. It grossed $131,296 at the U.S. box office.{{sfn|Box Office Mojo|ref=BOM}}

The film was received positively by Western film critics, with many singling out the intense climactic scene and commenting on its stark contrast to the scenes that preceded it.{{sfn|British Board of Film Classification|ref=BBFC}} The film has appeared on several lists of the [[List of horror films voted the best|best horror films ever made]] and has had an influence on other horror directors, including [[Eli Roth]] and the [[Soska sisters]].

== Plot ==
Shigeharu Aoyama visits his wife Ryoko in hospital, where she dies from an undisclosed illness. Seven years later, Shigeharu's teenage son Shigehiko encourages him to find a new wife. Shigeharu's friend, film producer Yasuhisa Yoshikawa, devises a fake casting audition at which young women audition for the starring role in a new television series, though they are actually auditioning for the part of Shigeharu's new wife. Posing as a casting director, Shigeharu is immediately enchanted by an applicant named Asami Yamazaki, who says she was pursuing a career as a ballet dancer until injuries ended her aspirations.

Yasuhisa is suspicious when he cannot reach any of the references in Asami's résumé, such as a music producer she said she worked for, who turns out to have gone missing eighteen months earlier. Shigeharu is so enthralled that he pursues her anyway. She lives in a tiny apartment, containing little more than a large sack and a telephone; she sits perfectly still next to the phone for four days after the audition, waiting for it to ring. When it finally does, she answers and pretends that she never expected Shigeharu to call. After several dates, she accompanies him to a hotel, where Shigeharu intends to propose marriage. She reveals burn scars on her body and, before having sex, demands that Shigeharu pledge his love to her. Deeply moved, he agrees. In the morning, Shigeharu receives a call from the front desk to inform him that Asami has left.

Shigeharu tries to track down Asami, but all of the contacts on her résumé are dead ends, as Yasuhisa warned. At the dance studio where she said she trained, he finds a man with prosthetic feet who tortured her by burning her legs when she was a child. The bar where she said she worked has been abandoned for a year following the murder and dismemberment of the owner, and a local man tells Shigeharu that the police found an extra tongue, an extra ear, and three extra fingers when they recovered the body. Shigeharu has hallucinations of the body pieces.

Asami sneaks into Shigeharu's house while he is at work and becomes jealous when she sees a framed picture of Ryoko. She drugs his liquor and kills Gangu, the family dog. Shigeharu comes home, drinks the spiked liquor, and collapses. He has a series of hallucinations, including flashbacks to earlier dates with Asami and sexual experiences with other women from his past. In Asami's apartment, he sees that the sack contains a man who is missing both feet, his tongue, an ear, and three fingers on one hand. He crawls out and begs for food, prompting Asami to vomit into a dog bowl, which he hungrily consumes as Shigeharu watches in horror. He then sees her behead the man with prosthetic feet.

When Shigeharu wakes up, Asami informs him he's been injected with a [[paralytic agent]] that disables his muscles but leaves him conscious and able to feel, and begins to torture him with acupuncture needles. She tells him that, just like everyone else, he has failed to love only her. She cannot tolerate his feelings for anyone else, even his own son. She inserts needles into his abdomen and below his eyes. She then cuts off his left foot with a [[wire saw]]. As she is halfway through cutting off his right foot, Shigehiko returns home from school and Asami attacks him. Shigeharu appears to suddenly wake up back in the hotel, his current ordeal apparently just a nightmare, though this is actually a [[false awakening]]. He proposes marriage to Asami, who accepts. As he falls back asleep, he returns to reality to find Shigehiko fighting Asami. Shigehiko overpowers Asami and kicks her down the stairs, breaking her neck. Shigeharu tells Shigehiko to call the police and stares across the room at the dying Asami, who repeats what she said on one of their dates about her excitement over seeing him again.

== Cast ==
* [[Ryo Ishibashi]] as {{nihongo|Shigeharu Aoyama|青山 重治|Aoyama Shigeharu}}
* [[Eihi Shiina]] as {{nihongo|Asami Yamazaki|山崎 麻美|Yamazaki Asami}}
* [[Jun Kunimura]] as {{nihongo|Yasuhisa Yoshikawa|吉川泰久|Yoshikawa Yasuhisa}}, a film producer and Shigeharu's friend
* [[Tetsu Sawaki]] as {{nihongo|Shigehiko Aoyama|青山 重彦|Aoyama Shigehiko}}, Shigeharu's teenage son
* [[Miyuki Matsuda]] as {{nihongo|Ryoko Aoyama|青山良子|Aoyama Ryoko}}, Shigeharu's late wife
* [[Toshie Negishi]] as {{nihongo|Rie|リエ}}
* Shigeru Saiki as {{nihongo|bar owner|酒場のマスター|Sakaba no masutā}}
* [[Ken Mitsuishi]] as {{nihongo|director|ディレクター|Direkutā}}
* [[Ren Osugi]] as {{nihongo|Shimada|芝田}}
* [[Renji Ishibashi]] as {{nihongo|old man in wheelchair|車椅子の老人|Kurumaisu no rōjin}}

== Themes ==
Critics have considered ''Audition'' as both [[Feminism|feminist]] and [[Misogyny|misogynistic]].{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=181}} Miike has stated that when he met journalists in the United Kingdom and France, he found they commented on the film's feminist themes when Asami gets revenge on the men in her life.{{sfn|Miike|Tengan|loc=1:02:50}} The film sets up Aoyama with traits and behaviors which could be considered sexist: a list of criteria for his bride to meet, and the phony audition format he uses to search for a future wife.{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=189}} Tom Mes, author of ''Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike,'' stated that the torture sequence, with the mutilation of Aoyama, can be seen as revenge from Asami.{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=189}} Dennis Lim of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' examined similar themes, noting that the film is "ultimately about the male fear of women and female sexuality" and that women are blatantly objectified in the first half of the film, only to have Asami "redress this imbalance" in the second half when she becomes an "avenging angel".{{sfn|Lim|2009}}

Chris Pizzello, writing in the ''[[American Cinematographer]]'', stated that one plausible approach to interpreting the film is to see the final act as a representation of Aoyama's guilt at his mistreatment of women and his desire to dominate them.
{{sfn|Pizzello|2002|p=18}} Aoyama develops a paranoid fantasy of an attacking object: because he harbours sadistic thoughts towards women, he develops a fear that the object will retaliate.{{sfn|LeDrew|2006}} Contrary to this, Miike has stated that the final torture scenes in the film are not a paranoid nightmare dreamed up by Aoyama.
{{sfn|Pizzello|2002|p=18}} Tom Mes has argued against the feminist portrayal of the film, noting that Asami is not motivated by an ideological agenda, and that acknowledging that she takes revenge on a man who has lied to her would be ignoring that she has also lied to Aoyama.{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=189}} Asami states "I want to tell you everything" during the torture scene, implying she had not been truthful before.{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=189}} Mes also notes that the avenging angel theme contradicts a feminist-themed revenge interpretation, given that one of Asami's victims is female.{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=189}}{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=190}}

In ''Audition'', the character of Asami is a victim of [[child abuse]]. Colette Balmain, in her book ''Introduction to Japanese Horror Film'', described Asami as "just one more face of the wronged women in Japanese culture... They are victims of repression and oppression, and only death and loneliness remain for them".{{sfn|Balmain|2008|p=112}} The film critic Robin Wood wrote that through her child abuse, Asami is taught that love and pain must be inseparable.{{sfn|Wood|2004|p=24}} The audience is led to identify with Asami through this victimization and also what Stephen LeDrew described as a "patriarchal Japanese society".{{sfn|LeDrew|2006}}

[[Elvis Mitchell]] (''[[The New York Times]]'') stated that the theme of the film was: "the objectification of women in Japanese society and the mirror-image horror of retribution it could create".{{sfn|Mitchell|2001}} Tom Mes suggested that these themes can be witnessed in the scene where Asami feeds her mutilated prisoner and then turns into the childhood version of herself and pets him like a dog.{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=188}} Mes concludes that this is done to suggest that what had happened in Asami's life had made her the violent adult seen in the film.{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=188}}

== Production ==
=== Development ===
[[File:Ryu Murakami.jpg|thumbnail|left|The film was adapted from the novel of the same name by [[Ryu Murakami]].|alt=Novelist Ryu Murakami]]
The main production company behind ''Audition'' was the Japanese company Omega Project.
{{sfn|Mes|loc=0:01:10}} Omega were originally behind the production of [[Hideo Nakata]]'s film ''[[Ring (film)|Ring]]''; this was a great success in Japan and, subsequently, the rest of Asia.{{sfn|Mes|loc=0:01:20}} Omega had problems setting up the release of ''Ring'' in Korea and had the company AFDF Korea work on a Korean re-adaptation of ''Ring''.{{sfn|Mes|loc=0:02:10}}{{sfn|Mes|loc=0:01:10}}{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=391}}{{sfn|Vitagraph Films|ref=theatricalVita}} The following year, in 1998, Omega partnered again with AFDF Korea and other production companies, including Creators Company Connection, Film Face, and Bodysonic to make the adaptation of [[Ryū Murakami]]'s 1997 novel ''[[Audition (Murakami novel)|Audition]]''.{{sfn|Mes|loc=0:02:10}} Omega wanted to create a film different from the supernatural-themed ''Ring'', and chose to adapt Murakami's novel, which lacked this trait.{{sfn|Mes|loc=0:05:40}} To attempt something different, they hired a screenwriter (Daisuke Tengan) and a director ([[Takashi Miike]]) who were not known for working on horror films.{{sfn|Mes|loc=0:05:40}} Prior to ''Audition'', Tengan was best known as a screenwriter for working with his father ([[Shohei Imamura]]) on ''[[The Eel (film)|The Eel]]'', which won the [[Palme d'Or]] in 1997.{{sfn|Cannes Film Festival|ref=cannes}}{{sfn|Mes|loc=0:07:50}}

=== Pre-production ===
To create ''Audition'', Miike worked with many of his previous collaborators, such as cinematographer Hideo Yamamoto.
{{sfn|Pizzello|2002|p=17}} Miike spoke of his cinematographer by saying that Yamamoto was: "very sensitive towards death. Both of his parents died very young, and it's not something he talks about much".{{sfn|Pizzello|2002|p=18}} Miike also noted that he felt that Yamamoto was: "living in fear, and that sensibility comes through in his work. It's something I want to make the most of".
{{sfn|Pizzello|2002|p=18}} The film's score was composed by Kōji Endō.{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=391}} Endō had previously composed work for Miike on films such as ''[[The Bird People in China]]''.{{sfn|AllMovie|ref=AM-KojiEndo}} Yasushi Shimamura was the film's editor.{{sfn|Eisner|1999}} Shimamura had worked with Miike as early as ''[[Lady Hunter: Prelude To Murder]]'' in 1991.{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=375}}

Actor [[Ryo Ishibashi]] wanted to work with Miike and agreed to the role. He commented that despite not being a great fan of horror films, he enjoyed scripts such as that of ''Audition'', that showcased human nature.{{sfn|Ishibashi|loc=0:04:30}} Model [[Eihi Shiina]] was cast in the film as Asami. Shiina's career was primarily as a model and she only began acting after being offered a film role while she was on holidays.{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:00:16}}{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:01:10}}

Shiina first learned about Miike through his film ''[[Blues Harp (film)|Blues Harp]]'', which made her interested in meeting the director.{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:02:38}} When Shiina first met Miike, they began talking about her opinions on love and relationships.{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:03:10}}{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:03:19}} On their second meeting, Miike asked Shiina to play the part of Asami.{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:04:03}} Shiina thought that the opinions and feelings she expressed to Miike were the reason she was cast in the role, and she tried to play the role as naturally as she could without going over the top.{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:04:49}}

=== Production ===
''Audition'' was shot in approximately three weeks, which was about one more week than usual for Miike's films at the time.{{sfn|Miike|Tengan|loc=0:45:28}} Scenes such as those in Asami's apartment and at a restaurant were shot [[on location filming|on location]] in a real apartment and a real restaurant.{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:09:39}}{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:10:08}}
Outdoor scenes were shot in Tokyo, along intersections in [[Omotesandō]].{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:10:19}}

The torture scene at the end of the film did not initially contain Asami's lines "Kiri-kiri-kiri".{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:10:53}}{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:11:04}} Shiina was initially whispering her lines while filming this scene, but after discussion with Miike, the two decided that having her say these lines would make the scene scarier.{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:11:04}} Ishibashi found that Miike was "having so much fun with that scene", and that Miike was especially excited when Ishibashi's character's feet are cut off.{{sfn|Ishibashi|loc=0:15:00}} For the special effects where Shiina's character places acupuncture needles into Ishibashi, special effects make-up was used to create a mask layer which was laid upon Ishibashi's eyes, which is then pierced by the needles.{{sfn|Desjardins|2005|p=205}}

== Release ==
=== Theatrical ===
[[File:Takashi Miike.jpg|thumb|upright|Director Takashi Miike won two awards for ''Audition'' at the [[International Film Festival Rotterdam|Rotterdam International Film Festival]].|alt=Film director Takashi Miike]]
''Audition'' had its world premiere on October 2, 1999, at the [[Vancouver International Film Festival]].{{sfn|Crow}}{{sfn|Vancouver International Film Festival|ref=VIFF}} The premiere was part of a program of modern Japanese horror films at the festival, including ''[[Ring (film)|Ring]]'', ''[[Ring 2]]'', ''[[Shikoku (film)|Shikoku]]'', and ''[[Gemini (1999 film)|Gemini]]''.
{{sfn|Andrews|1999|p=C20}} ''Audition'' was screened at the 29th [[International Film Festival Rotterdam|Rotterdam International Film Festival]] in The Netherlands in early 2000 where it was shown as part of a Miike retrospective.{{sfn|Vitagraph Films|ref=theatricalVita}}{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=181}}  Tom Mes stated that ''Audition'' received the most attention at Rotterdam, where it won the [[International Federation of Film Critics|FIPRESCI Prize]] for the best film of competition.{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=181}}{{sfn|International Film Festival Rotterdam|ref=iffr-award-info}}{{sfn|FIPRESCI|ref=FIPRESCI}} The FIPRESCI award was given by a jury of international film journalists, who grant this award during the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Only films not in competition qualify for the award.{{sfn|International Film Festival Rotterdam|ref=iffr-award-info}} ''Audition'' also won the KNF Award, voted by the Circle of Dutch Film journalists.{{sfn|International Film Festival Rotterdam [i]|ref=KNF}}

''Audition'' was released theatrically in Japan on March 3, 2000.{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=391}} When asked about the reception in Japan, Miike stated that there was "no reaction" as the film was shown in small theaters for a short theatrical run.{{sfn|Mes|2005|p=18}}

Miike followed up that the Japanese audience did not really know about ''Audition'' until it received a greater reputation abroad.{{sfn|Mes|2005|p=18}} It received its American premiere at the [[Seattle International Film Festival]] in 2000.{{sfn|Vitagraph Films|ref=theatricalVita}}{{sfn|Arnold|2001}} The film was given its theatrical release in the United States on August 8, 2001.{{sfn|Box Office Mojo|ref=BOM}}{{sfn|Bitel|2016|p=8}} It eventually grossed $131,296 in the country.{{sfn|Box Office Mojo|ref=BOM}}

In the United Kingdom, ''Audition'' received screenings in 2000 at both [[London FrightFest Film Festival|FrightFest]] and the [[Raindance Film Festival]].{{sfn|Bitel|2016|p=8}} It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom by Metro Tartan in mid-March 2001.{{sfn|Bitel|2016|p=8}} It was Miike's first film to be released theatrically in the United Kingdom.{{sfn|Bitel|2016|p=8}}

=== Home media ===
''Audition'' was released on DVD in the United States by Chimera on June 4, 2002.{{sfn|AllMovie [i]|ref=allmovie-dvd}}
The DVD included an interview with Miike and a documentary on the [[Egyptian Theater]] in Los Angeles.{{sfn|AllMovie [i]|ref=allmovie-dvd}}{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=405}} A new DVD was released by [[Lionsgate Films|Lionsgate]] in 2005 dubbed the "uncut special edition".{{sfn|AllMovie [i]|ref=allmovie-dvd}}{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=405}} This release included an interview with Ryu Murakami, a selected scene commentary by Miike, and a clip from [[Bravo (U.S. TV network)|Bravo]]'s ''[[The 100 Scariest Movie Moments]]''.{{sfn|AllMovie [i]|ref=allmovie-dvd}}{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=405}} Peter Schorn of [[IGN]] gave a negative review of the 2006 DVD, finding that the video was "overcompressed to the point that a distracting, shifting blockiness frequently in backgrounds that draws the eye away from the actors".{{sfn|Schorn|2006}} IGN concluded that the: "overall image quality is soft and fuzzy, with weak black levels, murky shadow areas and less-than-impressive color saturation".{{sfn|Schorn|2006}} On October 6, 2009, [[Shout! Factory]] released a DVD and Blu-ray release of the film that featured an introduction by Miike and actress Eihi Shiina, a full audio commentary by Miike and screenwriter Daisuke Tengan, and a documentary featuring the cast.{{sfn|AllMovie [i]|ref=allmovie-dvd}}{{sfn|McCutcheon|2009}}

''Audition'' was released in the United Kingdom on DVD by [[Palisades Tartan|Tartan Video]] on June 28, 2004.{{sfn|AllMovie [i]|ref=allmovie-dvd}}{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=405}} The disc contained an interview with Miike and liner notes by [[Joe Cornish]].{{sfn|AllMovie [i]|ref=allmovie-dvd}} Matthew Leyland (''[[Sight & Sound]]'') reviewed this release, stating that the audio and visual presentation was "exemplary" while noting that the interview with Miike was the only noteworthy bonus feature on the disc.{{sfn|Leyland|2004|p=74}} The film was later released by [[Arrow Films|Arrow Video]] on February 29, 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/audition-blu-ray/ |publisher=[[Arrow Films]] |title=Audition Blu-Ray |access-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307205435/http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/audition-blu-ray/ |archive-date=March 7, 2016}}</ref> The Arrow Video release was exclusively restored in [[2K resolution]] and was scanned from a 35&nbsp;mm [[interpositive]].{{sfn|Arrow Films|ref=audition-restoration}}

== Reception ==
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has a rating of 83% based on 81 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "An audacious, unsettling Japanese horror film from director Takashi Miike, ''Audition'' entertains as both a grisly shocker and a psychological drama".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://rottentomatoes.com/m/audition_1999/ |title=Audition (Odishon) (1999) |publisher=[[Fandango Media]] |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=July 20, 2019}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a [[weighted average]] score of 70 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://metacritic.com/movie/audition |title=Audition |work=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101102235147/https://metacritic.com/movie/audition |archive-date=November 2, 2010}}</ref>

Ken Eisner (''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'') gave the film a positive review. Eisner referred to the film as a "truly shocking horror film" that was "made even more disturbing by its haunting beauty".{{sfn|Eisner|1999}} Geoffrey Macnab, writing in ''[[Sight and Sound]]'', referred to the film as a "slow-burning but ultimately devastating horror pic" and wrote that "it's a virtuoso piece of film-making with much more subtlety and depth than Miike's other films".{{sfn|Macnab|2001|p=63}} ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]''{{'s}} [[Frank Scheck]] described the film as "one of the most audacious, iconoclastic horror films in recent years".{{sfn|Scheck|2001|p=143}} [[Mark Schilling]] (''[[The Japan Times]]'') praised Shiina and Ishibashi's acting, but noted that "among the film's few irritants is a smarmy, snarly bad guy turn by Renji Ishibashi as Asami's wheelchair-using ballet instructor. He is a reminder of where too many other Miike films have headed – straight for the video racks".{{sfn|Schilling|2000}} Schilling concluded that "Miike is ready for a bigger role – as one of the leading Japanese directors of his generation".{{sfn|Schilling|2000}} In the early 2010s, ''[[Time Out London|Time Out]]'' conducted a poll with several authors, directors, actors and critics who have worked within the horror genre to vote for their top horror films.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/best-horror-films |work=[[Time Out London|Time Out]] |access-date=April 13, 2014 |title=The 100 best horror films |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120015803/http://www.timeout.com/london/film/best-horror-films |archive-date=January 20, 2013 |ref=TimeOut1}}</ref> ''Audition'' placed at number 18 on their top 100 list.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-horror-films-the-list?pageNumber=9 |work=[[Time Out London|Time Out]] |access-date=April 13, 2014 |title=The 100 best horror films: the list |author=CC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150129022607/http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-horror-films-20-11 |archive-date=January 29, 2015 |ref=TimeOut2}}</ref>

=== Final sequence response ===
Writers for ''Variety'', ''The Hollywood Reporter'' and ''Sight & Sound'' all emphasized the film's final scene. Scheck (''The Hollywood Reporter'') wrote that "Miike lulls the audience into a state of complacency with a studied, slow-moving, lightly comic first half before delivering a gruesome final section that makes Stephen King's ''Misery'' look wholesome"; the ending was "all the more shocking for the clinical way in which it is presented".{{sfn|Scheck|2001|p=143}} Eisner (''Variety'') stated that it is only at the ending of the film that ''Audition'' "breaks out of creepfest ghetto".{{sfn|Eisner|1999}}  In his essay on themes in ''Audition'', [[Robin Wood (critic)|Robin Wood]] stated that most of Miike's films are disturbing for "what they have to tell us about the state of contemporary civilization; they are not in the least disturbing in themselves, operating on some fantasy level of annihilation, with 'comic-book' violence".{{sfn|Wood|2004|p=23}} In comparison, he stated that ''Audition'' is "authentically disturbing, and infinitely more horrifying: the first time I watched it – on DVD, at home, after warnings I had received – I was repeatedly tempted, through the last half hour, to turn it off".{{sfn|Wood|2004|p=23}} Wood compared the film to [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]]'s ''[[Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom]]'', stating that the film was "almost as unwatchable as the news reels – of Auschwitz, of the innocent victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Vietnam, victims of Nazi or American dehumanization".{{sfn|Wood|2004|p=23}}

Of the film's success with Western audiences, Miike states that he was not surprised, but that he had "no idea what goes on in the minds of people in the West and I don't pretend to know what their tastes are. And I don't want to start thinking about that. It's nice that they liked my movie, but I'm not going to start deliberately worrying about why or what I can do to make it happen again".{{sfn|Hantke|2005|p=56}} Actress [[Eihi Shiina]] stated that, in Japan, only a certain type of film fan would watch ''Audition''. By comparison, she said, the film was seen by many more people overseas, which she attributed to "good timing".{{sfn|Shiina|loc=0:12:25}}

== Aftermath and influence ==
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After the release of ''Audition'', Miike was going to adapt Murakami's novel ''[[Coin Locker Babies]]'', but the project failed to find enough financing.{{sfn|Mes|2006|p=418}}

''Audition'' has been described as an influence on "[[torture porn]]".{{sfn|Hantke|2010|p=198}}{{sfn|Hanley|2014}}{{sfn|Gartside|2013|p=85}} The term was invented by [[David Edelstein]] to describe films such as ''[[Saw (2004 film)|Saw]]'', ''[[The Devil's Rejects]]'' and ''[[Wolf Creek (film)|Wolf Creek]]'' offering "titillating and shocking" scenes which push the audience to the margins of depravity in order for them to "feel something".{{sfn|Aston|Walliss|2013|p=2}} ''Audition'' influenced American directors such as [[Eli Roth]].{{sfn|Phipps|2007}} Roth stated that ''Audition'' influenced him to make his film ''[[Hostel (2005 film)|Hostel]]'', with Miike even making a cameo as a satisfied customer of the kidnappers who let customers torture their victims.{{sfn|Hantke|2010|p=198}}{{sfn|Phipps|2007}} [[Richard Corliss]], writing in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', opined that ''Audition'' was different from torture porn films as: "unlike ''Saw'' and its imitators in the genre of torture porn, ''Audition'' doesn't go for gore-ific money shots. Miike's films live inside their characters, taking the temperature of their longings, the ridiculous ambitions they chase so obsessively and their need to experience the extreme to prove they're alive".{{sfn|Corliss|2007}}

''Audition'' has been referenced in western popular culture such as comics, music videos, and other media.{{sfn|Salem|2021}}
{{sfn|Cirone|2021}} It was listed by twin directors [[Soska sisters|Jen and Sylvia Soska]] as one of their favourite horror films, and with the sisters saying that it was an influence on their film ''[[American Mary]]''.{{sfn|Time Out|ref=Timeout-S}}{{sfn|Aint It Cool News|ref=AM-AICN}} The directors noted the character of Asami, stating that an audience generally sees: "female characters in a horror film as the helpless victim. This film leads you in one direction, skillfully hinting at a darker storyline for the otherwise meek and slight Asami until the final 15 minutes where we are introduced to a merciless monster. A perfect personification of the irrational rage of a woman scorned".{{sfn|Time Out|ref=Timeout-S}}{{sfn|Aint It Cool News|ref=AM-AICN}} Director [[Quentin Tarantino]] included ''Audition'' in his list of top 20 films released since 1992 (the year he became a director), referring to it as a "true masterpiece if there ever was one".{{sfn|Brown|2009}}

''Audition'' was among the films included in the book ''[[1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die]] (2015).''{{sfn|Schneider|2015|p=878}}

''[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]'' reported that [[executive producer]] [[Mario Kassar]] had begun work on an English-language adaptation of ''Audition'' in 2014.{{sfn|Yamato|2014}} Richard Gray was brought on to serve as the remake's director and screenwriter.{{sfn|Child|2014}} The film's storyline would be taken from Ryu Murakami's novel as opposed to an adaptation of Miike's film, and the film would take place in North America.{{sfn|Yamato|2014}}{{sfn|Gingold|2014}} The new film would  include scenes and locations in the novel that were not in Miike's film.{{sfn|Gingold|2014}} Kassar spoke about the remake in 2016, saying he was "almost there. It's taking me a long time because it is kind of hard to do this movie but I'm not going to do it unless I know I'm doing it right."{{sfn|Jaafar|2016}} [[Focus Features]] and [[Hyde Park Entertainment]] announced development on an adaptation of the novel in 2025. The film is set to be directed and written by [[Christian Tafdrup]] and co-written by Christian's brother Mads Tafdrup.{{sfn|D'Alessandro|2025}}

== See also ==
* [[List of cult films]]
* [[List of horror films of 1999]]
* [[List of Japanese films of 1999]]
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