Audition: Fear and Loathing in Tokyo

In this episode, Jason and Ali talk about dating, love and, naturally, torture porn. Was Takashi Miike's cult film Audition/『オーディション』 (1999) the first movie to tantalise audiences with meticulously staged scenes of slow burning sadism? Is loneliness the spirit that haunts so much contemporary Japanese horror and our lives everywhere?

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