Audition Coming to American DVD

American Cinematheque, a small domestic company dedicated to preserving and presenting rare and little seen underground and alternative domestic and foreign films, has announced that their current small line of Japanese cult cinema DVDs will expand to include Takeshi Miike’s Audition this spring. The American Cinematheque line of Japanese cinema releases currently includes Koji Wakamatsu’s “Go, Go, Second Time Virgin” from 1969 and “Ecstasy of the Angels” from 1970, Yasuhari Hasebe’s 1966 Nikkatsu picture Black Tight Killers, and Shunya Ito’s 1972 Female Convict Scorpion- Jailhouse 41.

Audition (1999) is currently touring American theaters in limited art-house theater release and is currently available on DVD in Asia, Japan and the UK. The critically acclaimed film, commonly regarded as one of Takeshi Miike’s best, is also widely considered one of the most disturbing and shocking psycho-sexual horror films ever created, with a final reel guaranteed to horrify even the most seasoned fright film fans.

Source: Anime News Service