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12: Audition - Lady Roulette

12: Audition - Lady Roulette

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This week Kris and Donna pop open the Pandora's box of Takashi Miike's ouevre with "Audition" (1999), a Japanese horror film about a widower seeking a new wife by way of a fake movie audition.

CONTENT WARNINGS: Parent/Spouse Death, Sexual Exploitation, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Forced Drugging, Forced Captivity, Torture, Dismemberment, Vomit, Emetophilia, Needles, Eye Trauma, Neck Trauma, Child Abuse, The Dog Dies

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SHOW NOTES:

Watch “Audition”: Prime, Tubi, Apple TV

“Audition,” IMDb.

“Audition (1999 film),” Wikipedia.

“Takashi Miike,” Wikipedia.

“TAKASHI THE KILLER: AN INTERVIEW WITH JAPAN'S LEADING CULT DIRECTOR TAKASHI MIIKE,” Xavier Mendik, Kamera.co.uk, 2002.

“Japan Isn’t Ready for a #MeToo Moment,” Rob Fahey, Tokyo Review, May 24 2018.

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