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Takashi Miike's 'Audition' Gets Blu-ray Release
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One of the best Japanese horror films this decade, Audition, is about to get a special 10th anniversary release, courtesy of Shout Factory, reports Twitch Film. While no date is set in stone other than an October tease, below you'll find a list of the current extra features for both the DVD and high def Blu-ray release. In the film directed by the infamous Takashi Miike, a middle-aged widower is urged by his teenage son & film producer friend to start dating again. They devise a plan to hold a phony film audition to meet new women. The widower falls for a beautiful ballerina with a suspicious past & their courtship veers from poilte romance to psychnightmare!

Shout! Factory will handle the release which is set for both DVD and Blu-ray format with the following extras in tow: • Feature-length audio commentary with Miike and screenwriter Daisuke Tengan, who is also scripting Miike’s upcoming remake of the chanbara classic 13 ASSASSINS. Film writer and Eiga Hi-Ho contributor Masato Kobayashi moderates the Japanese-language (and English-subtitled) commentary track. • Video introduction by Miike • New video interview featurettes with the film’s main cast - From Audition to Vampire Girl: Eihi Shiina - Tokyo—Hollywood: Ryo Ishibashi - Miike’s Toy: Renji Ishibashi - The Man in the Bag Speaks: Ren Osugi • Film trailer, plus liner notes by Agitator author and Midnight Eye founder Tom Mes

Source: http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/10th-anniversry-edition-of-audition-officially-announced-for-october/