Watching Audition for the First Time Scarred Me
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Audition..never again.
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If you are willing to watch this, you must check out Ichi the Killer. I don't know how much you'd be able to show on TH-cam, but it's a crazy movie. Ultra violent, yes, but it somehow manages to have a decent story/plot in the midst of all the chaos in that movie.
I checked the list of movies you have reacted and I can't believe you haven't reacted to The Wailing. It's October. You gotta watch The Wailing. One of my top 5 horror movies of all time worldwide. It's not scary, but I consider it a horror epic/classic. Highly recommend. More than Ichi the Killer I mentioned in another comment.
After watching your reaction, I'm happy for you that you got to enjoy the Art of the first part... As for the pain of the end, welcome to the club of the traumatized. I saw it in the theatre in 1999. Be thankful that your screen was small and you were not watching it on a date!
Years later, I was in a movie line by someone who said that he did reviews for AMPAS, and we were talking about movies that hit us hard, I brought up "Audition" and that I had watched it in a theatre... he looked at me with an expression of shock, disgust and pity and said "You saw THAT in a theatre?" and shook his head and turned away. He did not want to discuss it further.
Thank you for going through it for us. I must admit that I laughed more at your reaction(s) than I have at any of your others. It was cathartic. Thank you again.
There is a reason why this is one of Tarantino's favorite films
James, I recommend this film to every reactor for about the last 5 years..
Glad to see you do this, definitely one of my top 5 favorites in the horror genre....this film is notoriously the most walked out of film. When it was released 20 minutes from the end the lights in the theater got turned on so the audience fleeing this film would not trio and get injured I. The rush....got this on DVD and watch it every year since 1999.
Only true due hard horror fans can make it through this one.
the way I gasped when I saw the thumbnail
It’s about that time 🤘🏽
When i saw “oh hell nah” i couldn’t hold my laughter
I was READYYYYYY
My favourite horror film of ALL time! Love how it starts off like this delicate flower only to turn into one of the most visceral, grotesque, vile things I’ve ever seen!
I wanted to die lmfaooo
@@JamesVSCinema it’s a great introduction to the madness of Takashi Miike! I dare you to watch Ichi the Killer or Gozu next!!
@@aaronshouting588ohhhh gozu is fucking insanity
@@JamesVSCinema Gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble, we will make you one of us.
The fucking envy I have for someone going into this blind.
I laughed out loud when I saw the title and thumbnail. A truly shocking and twisted horror flick. The bag human messes me up
Yup, the phone ringing and the bag flop. Choice: go over (run) to the Disney flick in the next theatre over, or settle in for darkness... I did the latter.
I just always want to point out how in the beginning of the movie they mention explicitly that arranged marriage is an option, which suggests he could have auditioned knowing applicants; instead he wastes these actress' time and coerces them to answer deeply personal questions and model for him by dangling the false hope of a paying job and career boost. Asami told the truth when she said she didn't care, she just had the one condition. This is the story of a monster playing a stupid game, fucking around, having the option to not find out, and choosing to win a stupid prize anyway via a monster who matches his freak.
Good analysis. I always saw it as a pseudo love story where the male lead did take advantage of his power but met a way more evil force. The punishment doesn’t fit the crime but who knows what he might have done if left the time? His tendencies were going WAY off the rails.
This brings up the idea for me of comparing the beginning audition with whatever was going on with the ballet stuff-- it's been awhile since I've seen the movie, so I don't recall to what extent the guy frames his abuse around her ability to perform, but it feels like there's something there. Maybe it's a comparison of what the leading man might do by the time he reaches the age of ballet man. Either way, it's interesting to me that this is the only "punishment" to use your word any of them face for their exploitation-- there's nothing in place within society to catch them at it, if Asami hadn't decided there would be negative repercussions for either man's actions, there wouldn't be any. Especially when the one guy is what pushed Asami to get to this level in the first place. Anyway, I appreciate the comment a lot, good discussion brewing!
Appreciate you reacting to this movie as this is a more obscure film to react too.
@@jasonsumner3386 I feel like more has been written about this film than any other in that short J-Horror period, academically and in consumer entertainment, so it’s been a minute since I thought it was obscure. dasjusmedoe.
I was baptized into this kinda stuff a long time ago.
Whatever the Patrons are doing: Keep it up!
YES!! Man. I remember yeeears ago being 14 or 15 and discovering this film through a show that used to air every Halloween season called Bravos 100 Scariest Movie Moments. They hyped up this movie a lot, and luckily there was a DVD copy at one of my local videos stores called Movie Seen (originally called Video Update). So I brought this home and watched it and I had never seen anything remotely like this at that point lol.
No shit? Me too!
That Bravo show had a lot of gems, but it did rob me of some surprises.
bravo's list introduced me to a lot of horror films including this 😃
James. You're weakening me at the knees, brother. I have an original 1999 Audition poster that's beautifully framed and signed by Miike Takashi hanging on the wall in my lounge. If only I could send a pic. Should move it really, though. It does worry every date I bring back. A few recommendations - not horror as such - but I think you'd appreciate these, as a filmmaker yourself: A Tale of Two Sisters, The Yellow Sea, The Chaser, I Saw The Devil, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. Last two are part of a trilogy with Oldboy, which I know you've seen already.
Edit: Fuck it, add Takashi's Ichi The Killer to that list as well.
Park-Chan-wook’s work is so good it’s hard to believe he exists at all.
Nobody can be that good, yet his films exist.
Old Boy was my intro to SK cinema and I will love that film forever, but don’t miss out on Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance.
Also, his short segment in the 3 Extremes anthology, “Cut”, fits right in to the revenge trilogy. 3.5-ogy I guess.
Oh dude a tale of two sisters is soooooo good
@@c-puff and a masterclass in using color on top of everything. The talent in that country never ceases to amaze me.
A Bitter Sweet Life is also great!
@@RealmDesigner Havent seen this yet. Based on his work on A Tale of Two Sisters and I saw the Devil, I’m probably in for a ride. 😆
Cheers for the suggestion!
Imagine watching this movie at a film festival back in 1999/2000 with no sense of what it is. There were several reports of ambulances being called to theaters at the time because of the extremity of that last half hour lol
Damn 😂
Takashi Mike is such a fascinating filmmaker. Always transgressive and pushing the limit he’s worked in multiple genres.
Some other films of his I’d recommend are Ichi the Killer, 13 Assassins, Blade of the Immortal.
13 Assassins is criminally under-watched. It was the first Miike I'd seen with an actual budget and it blew me away.
I don't think i've seen this in about 20 years! I still squirm thinking about the piano wire scene. I'd love to see some more Japanese films on the channel! I think this was probably the first Japanese horror I saw. Not long after a friend of mine started putting on horror nights at a local club he used to DJ at and showed a bunch of Asian horror flicks which opened my eyes up to a lot of stuff.
Man, and I thought the hobbling scene in Misery was bad. This takes the cake.
Takashi Miike is an amazin director to study. 117 films to date, sometimes he does 3 or 4 in a year. And he not oly switchses genre like mad (highlights include the crime-thriller-turns-Akira-insanity Dead or Alive, the family-zombie-volcano-musical The Hapiness of The Katakuris (with karaoke section AND a claymation section!), the spaghetti Western-Samurai-mashup Sukiyaki Western Django (featuring Quentin Tarantino, who is a major fan!), the sexually demented superhero satire Ichi The Killer, the arthouse horror movie you just saw, and the surreal gangster-ghost-absurdist-horror-whatever that is Gozu, where he changes genres literally every five minutes. Oh, he also does sweet kids movies, straight samurai epics and video game adaptations. SUCH an interesting character!
I used to go to Blockbuster back in the day (RIP :( ) and I would pick out horror movies and foreign movies randomly just based on interesting covers. One day I decided to rent Big Bang Love, Juvenile A, which is Miike's..... arthouse gay prison tragedy?? I liked it even though I didn't fully understand it. Now i've seen several of his films, and it's amazing how different they all are.
On the more mellower side, but still another good Miike film is The Bird People in China.
The LEGENDARY Takashi Miike! Now there’s a wild rabbit hole you REALLY need to explore
YES
So true. Such a beast behind the camera
Love how this is a really slow burn until it gets exponentially fucked up.
The commentary of Japan’s gender politics is great; it gets you so comfortable with the protagonist’s toxic and manipulative behavior before the rug is pulled.
It actually took me a solid minute to work up the courage to tap into this one. A movie that I've only seen once, because of the trauma.
and it wasn't even the end scene, it was the feeding scene. Didn't see it coming, wasn't prepared, and i swear it was... practical 🤢
I went to see it in the cinema when it came out, it had good reviews and I was a young cinema enthusiast. I had a very difficult session! 😁And seeing the looks on people's faces as they left (they were white and silent), I wasn't the only one! 😂Very good horror film, it doesn't happen very often.
OH SHIT!! I flipped when I saw this! James going in blind too?! I can't wait. 😂😂😂
There's a before watching Audition and an after watching Audition. Welcome to the after, my dude! It's a great film that has a lot to say and really sticks with you long after the fact. I found this film in college, and showed it to all of my friends, classmates and tutors without telling them what happens. I just handed them the DVD, said it was a horror flick and let them discover it. Great times.
Yessssss!!! And I'm so glad this was a suggestion. Meaning you went into this BLIND which many argue is the best way to watch this film but is sooooo hard because of how famous it is by now.
The excitement I had when I saw this thumbnail. I love this movie, as harsh as it is. But god is it not pretty to look at from a technical standpoint.
I can’t wait to get into this . ❤
I brought this film blind at a video store when I was in HS. I used to do that as a hobby and I was absolutely blown away. This film turned me onto other films like I Saw The Devil, A Tale of Two Sisters, and more.
Love how patient and thematically complex this film is, just as much as I love the eventual escalation. A true classic, and Miike's best.
Just started and I can’t wait to see the change in your energy by the outro.
Great film, but not even close to the most f’ed up film in Takashi Miike’s GIANT filmography.
That award goes to Visitor Q.
Strong recommendation for his films Ichi the Killer, Gozu, and the Dead or Alive series. Over-the-top is an understatement for this director.
One of my favorite horror films of all time. It's like possession in that you'll never forget the first time you experience it. Glad to see you checking it out
As a patreon voter all I can say is Happy Halloween James!
Hahahaha much love homie!
Hell yes, I've been waiting for someone to react to this
Fantastic film. Something I noted with Sinister also is how good the soundtrack to this one is.
Lots of big social themes underneath the surface with this narrative. Or, well, not so under the surface.
I am so happy I have been a subscriber to your channel. I have said before in the comments, I'm not the stereotypical subscriber. (old white guy) I do love your enthusiasm for the finer points of cinema or television. The things you point out. I've never met anyone who has ever seen this film before, pointed out the subtleties I missed, let alone comment on it. Thank you!
Ay anytime my friend!
I love this movie. Such a quiet movie that catches you off guard when it goes bonkers mode.
Fun fact; this director is now making a series of live action magical girl web shows.
I mean what can you even say, Miike's work is omega level fire.
Ryo Ishibashi, the main actor, is known for many Japanese Horror and Yakuza films but acted with Viggo Mortensen, Virginia Madsen, Michael Rooker, Omar Epps, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jet Li and Jason Statham during his career
What a great - though disturbing - movie. So happy this got through the patreon pool. There are so many less well known movies, esp. foreign movies, that don't get the attention they deserve in the "reaction community".
Love that you are watching some foreign films! That is pretty rare for reaction channels.
Yes! More reactors need to see this.
Jesus James! What are you doing hitting Audition like this? Well, you're ready for "I Saw the Devil" now.
'Hopping' into _Audition_ is sorta like hopping the cinematic-version of a wood-chipper XD
Takashi Miike pulled off a dark miracle with this, nearly perfectly creating the feel of a Ryū Murakami novel.
No way, you going down the rabbit hole, huh? Is Martyrs (2008) on your list as well?
Awww hell yeah a Takashi Miike film reaction. Check out Happiness of the Katakuris by the same director. The tagline is "The Sound of Music meets Dawn of the Dead"
love this crazy ass movie. you're gonna need all the weed in your purple jacket's pocket after that one lmao
きりきりきり〜 ＜３
Yes! I absolutely love this film. One of my, if not, favorite Takashi Miike film.
You know how there are movies that go from 0 to 100 in ther climax? This movie is on the top of the list.
Finally! Let's go! Trauma bonding!
Next do One Cut of the Dead (2017), I refuse to stop recommending it, lol.
(And then, as a non-horror follow up, Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020))
After this I moved onto the films where what you *can’t* disturbed me more than this… Michael Haneke’s work.
What I didn’t see will haunt me forever, and that’s the point.
Still hoping for pulse (2001)!
No offense but that movie sucks
@tonyattardo9350 they're talking about the original, not the sh*tty american remake
PTSD reading after watching: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by
Marie Kondo
Asia makes the best horror movies. Two I really recommend are called "I saw the devil" and "Kairo". Especially the first one has some masterclass acting.
I recently watched the 2001 Mexican movie ‘Y tu mama tambien’ directed by Alfonso Cuaron. It was amazing not only writing wise but also the direction is stunning. One of the best movies I’ve seen.
I think you would love it 🥰
OHHHH this is gonna be a good one !!
Probably someone already said it. But the the dog bowl scene... It was real. The actress really was vomiting so the actor actually eat that.
That scene is so much disturbing knowing that...
"The dog bowl of vomit fed to Asami's (Eihi Shiina) prisoner is in fact the actual vomit of actress Eihi. Takashi Miike claims that Eihi is a method actress and she insisted on doing this."
I feel that the story is about the father’s journey in trying to “cheat” love and the punishment there of - having the audition was treating women like objects and once he meets Miss Kitty Kitty she in turn makes men her objects…
Oh you're in the rabbit hole now 😂😂
This was the last movie I saw in the theater before the pandemic shut everything down, and I nearly passed out.
One of my favourite Horror Movies of The 1990s
YESSSS ONE OF MY HORROR FAVS!!
Hahahaha shoutout to the polls!
@@JamesVSCinema I knew you'd watch it someday. I highly recommend you to watch The Substance ASAP, it's probably the best movie of the year.
As other people are saying, you gotta watch 13 Assassins, Ichi the Killer, Gozu, Dead or Alive, Visitor Q maybe and Blade of Immortal.
Takashi Miike is a real workhorse of a director in 2002 alone when Audition came out. He directed 7 other films in the same year! His output is crazy! Its not uncommon for him to release 10 movies in the same calendar year. But he duesnt do hust horror even though his most infamous movies in his filmography are horror movies like Ichi The Killer, Visitor Q, and Audition.
One of his horror movies got a terrible us remake One Missed Call
Hes also directed live action anime adaptations like Jojo, Blade of The Immortal and video games adaptation like Phoenix Wright, Yakuza and Onimusha.
The actress that played Asami also stars as the lead in a satirical action horror movie called Tokyo Gore Police
Yeah this is definitely one of my favorite WTF movies
JAMES I BEG YOU TO DO THE WAILING NEXT PLEASE
He did it folks....😂😂😂
Ooooo... James, you are going to a very dark place... I saw it IN THE THEATRE in 1999... NOT a date movie! LOL
My first exposure to this film was when me and my first girlfriend in high school came back from a date to her place and her dad was watching this film.. the last 20 minutes, the torture scene. I've still never watched it from beginning to end. I think I'm good. I did recognize the main actor Ryo Ishibashi from "Suicide Club" (2001) directed by Sion Sono. A very unsettling surrealist film and worth a watch.
Yeah, this is one of those film including Icihi the Killer also by Takashi Miike where I can only watch it once.
She's always hunched over, as if she's trying to appear smaller.
Reminds me of “Shutter” one of my favorites.
Japanese horror never disappoints.
Hahaha it really doesn’t miss
TWO YEARS?!
How dare you, sir.
Oh this is gonna be a good one
Miike begins. Let’s go.
Gozu. Ichi. Dead or Alive. Visitor Q.
When Sleepless in Seattle goes very very wrong
28:16 I actually have done Acupuncture couple of times, it does help. It used for health purposes but I can see why some people would not be in to it or want to do it, especially people who are afraid of needles.
Kiri, Kiri, Kiri
I love this one. If you didn't know, for half the film you'd be forgiven for assuming it's a quirky little Japanese drama about a widower trying to find a new wife in a kind of ridiculous comedic way. Then the final scene is just 10 minutes of real time insanity. The fucking sound when it goes to bone, lol.
For more Takeshi Miike nonsense, add Ichi the Killer (2001) to your watch list.
Oh my favorite!!!
Want you to watch Ichi The Killer (2001) soon. Tadanobu Asano did a fantastic job as a villain in the in the movie.
I stopped dating for, like, a year almost, because of this film.
I love Takashi Miike, he has so many cool films. At least the ones before 2008 or so. 🙂
Dude awesome pick. This film is absolutely terrifying. I'm not one to be afraid of gore in films, I love it actually. Going to see Terrifier 3 tomorrow actually. But Audition is the only film ever yo make wince, and cringe, audibly out loud. It's a great one time watch.
It can get a lot worse trust me.
@@tonyattardo9350 idk. I've seen alot of Japanese and Italian horror. It takes alot to get to me. I think it's the sound design of Audition that causes that.
Couple of suggestions as someone who has watched countless horror movies and also is a film enthusiast:
- "Lake Mungo"
- "Resolution" and "The Endless" (in that order)
- "One Cut of the Dead"
- "The Wailing"
- "Climax"
- "[Rec]" 1&2
- "In the Mouth of Madness"
- "Oddity"
- the Original Japanese "Ju-On - The Grudge"
This is a variety of different films from different eras and different sub-genres and countries. I picked them not just because they are "super scary", but mostly because i think they are interesting from a film maker perspective. They all have different styles and approaches to horror, some of them are small indie productions.
Great recommendations, hope he gets to them
I was intrigued because I had never heard of "Resolution" but since I really liked "The Endless" I had to look it up, and it seems really interesting.
Same directors and writer, I will have to watch it. So thank you for that tip :)
Gaspar noé's Climax yes please!!
@@TheOdMan oh you will be in for a surprise :D
@@TheEvilcroz Gasper Noe is famous for creating realistic nightmares and this movie is a fever dream for sure!
Welcome to that Rabbit hole called Miike.. ❤
Keep telling yourself "It's just a prosthetic"
This up there with ASF in terms of disturbing. Imprint was also fucked up. There really could be too much of a good thing, watched “Man Bites Dog” years after and was literally yawning.
Oh lawd I wasn't expecting you to react to this! 😂
Have you recovered or are you still traumatized?
Hell yes
Kirri-kirri-kirri-kirri-kirri
Miike rules
Hope you'll react to ichi the killer too 😉
Or maybe some tsukamoto
Scariest film I’ve ever seen.
Meh they pulled casting couch shit, as always I continue to side with my girl and her superior coping mechanisms.
Anyhow! I would like to offer Raise the Red Lantern as a recommendation! Not a horror movie but a classic Chinese film from the 90s that doesn't get the respect it deserves because it isn't a fighting film, it's a drama. But it's so beautiful!
OMG noooooooooooo
RUN AWAYYYYY
I wonder if he knows about the dog bowl
Y'all let me know. Which scene got you more? The barfing scene or the torture scene?
Omg I clicked so fast!!!
It’d be dope if you reacted to Versus (2000) It’s a Japanese film that’s like Matrix meets Evil Dead🔥🔥🔥
I could save her!!
Ichi the Killer next 😄
More films by Takashi Miike pls!
I like it, it’s very good, but I’m not a huge fan of Audition; I do however love Miike’s Visitor Q (2001) and, Gozu (2003).
kiri kiri kiri kiri :P
33:40 the way he was looking for love was wrong. he fooled those women into thinking they were applying for a role for a film but instead it was to be his wife - that’s why asami targeted him. he definitely didn’t deserve what happened to him, but hey! he learned a lesson!
No that's not why she targeted him and it wasn't wrong either. Literally how all modern dating works
@@belachaney I read it as skewering exactly those dynamics. It’s exaggerating “how modern dating works” and then flipping that imbalance of power.
There’s something deeply fucked up about auditing prospective partners by luring them under false pretenses; wasting their time, adding another failed job opportunity. It’s beginning a relationship on lies and distilled objectification, but the tone is so disarmingly jaunty and upbeat when we see things from his perspective.
@belachaney insane position to not think it's wrong to make up a fake audition in order to find a young, hot wife. I think it's silly to say it's just how dating or finding love works.
@@unimpressedalchemist that's basically how dating apps work
@@enkoid you sound insane for taking this so seriously and implying it played into her decision, it didn't. And this is basically Tinder but in person, get over it
Please react to "The Baby" 1973. Not as gory but just as nutty.
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