Asami Yamazaki- Audition
It’s the perfect idea in theory: in order to avoid all the awkwardness and pressure of dating, you hold a fake “audition” for the role as “the wife” in a film, and take your pick from the female hopefuls. The brainchild of widower Shigeharu’s producer friend, the plan goes swimmingly at first, leading to some face-to-face time with the shy and demure Asami. But when it turns out that she’s more than a little bit mentally unhinged and keeps a vomit eating half-corpse in a burlap sack in her sitting room, things take a turn for the nasty. Madcap cult director Takeshi Miike gives us a breezy romantic drama for the first hour before taking us all the way to hell. Asami’s innocent “kiri, kiri, kiri” refrain is also the noughties answer to nazi dentist Dr. Szell’s “Is it safe?” from seventies chiller Marathon Man. Horrible stuff.
Psycho-babble: “Words create lies. Pain can be trusted.”
