The upcoming movie is said to be a take on the 1997 Japanese horror thriller novel Audition by Ryū Murakami, which was ...

Here’s how it works. Sometimes, the search for the biggest scare possible may take you overseas and into an exploration of Japanese horror movies. There are many great Asian horror movies ...

Nearly 26 years since Takashi Miike‘s Japanese horror cult classic Audition first premiered at the Vancouver International ...

For anyone who has never seen Audition, the movie is most satisfying when you ... before suddenly diving into the deep end of grotesque horror. Audition is the perfect example of a successful ...

This amazing movie is about a Jigsaw killer who placed his victims in the traps and forced them to make unthinkable choices ...

It's also one of the few jump scare-based horror films that is actually frightening, thus proving that this oft-maligned scare tactic can actually work when given to a filmmaker that can use it well.

Miike Takashi and producer Misako Saka on women in Japanese film industry, 'cheap' horror budgets and not being 'conscious' of audiences.

Miike recalled how “when horror movies became popular in Japan, everyone was watching Hollywood movies” and filmmakers began to “rebel against that.” “The feeling that only Japanese ...