For a solid year or so I watched almost nothing but Japanese Horror and exploitation films. I was fascinated by the different types of stories that they had. Takashi Miike was my favorite Japanese director (for the time) and Audition is his brutal hard to watch masterpiece.
I won't give away too much of the plot which there isn't too much of to begin with but the film follows a lonely man who is auditioning women to be his future mate and the lucky girl who has won his heart turns out to be a lunatic.
The pacing of this film is like none other, especially in the horror genre. For the first good chunk of the film you wonder where the horror is and how so many people found the film hard to watch. But then the film takes a drastic turn and you wish you could go back to when the film seemed to be just another love story.
Audition is a film that I recommend for anyone who considers themselves unshockable. It is a film that should be seen by all Japanese film buffs, especially Japanese horror fans. It is a film that is impossible to forget.
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