Original title: Ōdishon, Director: Takashi Miike, Japan 2000, 115 minutes, 35mm, original Japanese version with German subtitles

Friday, June 13, 2025, 11 pm

Blue Salon, Room 012, HfG Karlsruhe

Free admission, donation requested

What begins as a melancholy drama develops into one of the most disturbing horror films in Japanese cinema. Widowed Shigeharu Aoyama is looking for a new woman to be by his side. His friend suggests organizing a fake casting - the perfect excuse to meet potential partners. Aoyama is immediately fascinated by Asami, a seemingly shy, gentle young woman with a mysterious aura. But behind Asami's fragile façade lurks an abyss of pain, madness and revenge.

Director Takashi Miike masterfully plays with expectations: gentle piano music, poetic images - until the film suddenly shows its true colors. Audition is no simple horror, but a perfidious psychological thriller about power, manipulation and the horror that lurks beneath the surface of everyday life. A movie that captivates you, shocks you and never quite lets go.

The Kino im Blauen Salon, the student cinema of the Hochschule für Gestaltung, has been run by students since 2017 and has been a registered association since the beginning of 2024: https://kinoimblauensalon.de/de/news.

More about the film series in summer semester 2025:

Kino im Blauen Salon, the student cinema of the Hochschule für Gestaltung, invites you to the new program for the summer semester! Our film program, which was awarded 1st prize by the Deutsche Kinemathek, is now in its 18th semester! Time to take a brief look back... In our early days, cineastes were few and far between in the Blauer Salon, whereas today the room seems almost too small. But we have always remained true to our ideals: Analog film screenings in 35mm & 16mm, joint voluntary work with free admission and a relaxed HfG atmosphere. And the summer open-air cinema on the lawn in front of the HfG is already in its 6th round, this time at the end of May! So it's time not to look back, but to look forward: To another summer semester full of cinematic-poetic cinema highlights:
Our main interest this summer is poetry, because the nights are getting longer, the horizon endless and there's something in the air. But what does cinema have to do with poetry? Find out in our “Cinema Poetico” series, in which we set off on multiple narrative strands, meandering perspectives, visual detours and everything that lies between the lines. The series presents a hand-picked selection of classics and hidden gems that form the silent branches of cinema.
There are also nightly excursions with our “Midnight Movies”, the legendary Kult Sneak, experimental short film programs, workshops, specials, guests and, of course, the highlight of the cinema year, the open-air cinema in front of the HfG, under the motto “Freedom in Change”. See you soon at the movies!