Tag: ryumurakami

Review: PIERCING Elevates the Notion of Torture Porn with Its Own Style and Tone

Christopher Abbott, Laia Costa and Mia Wasikowska star in a horror-thriller adapted from Ryu Murakami's story, directed by Nicolas Pesce.

Melbourne 2018 Review: PIERCING, Sharp, Sweet and To The Point

From the same deranged brilliant mind behind Japanese horror novel Audition comes Ryu Murakami's latest adaptation from page to film. The short novel Piercing has been given a smart and frantically fun screenplay by Nicolas Pesce, who has a unique take...

10+ Years Later: Beyond AUDITION's Infamy

Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999) is a film whose memory has been all but condensed into a single image: a young Asian woman, soft-featured but wearing an unmistakably sinister side-long glance, holding up a syringe. This image was used for the...

TERMINATOR And RAMBO Producer Prepping English Language Adaptation of Murakami Ryu's AUDITION

Are mainstream American audiences ready for the deeply unsettling creations of Murakami Ryu? Terminator, Basic Instinct and Rambo exec producer Mario Kassar certainly hopes so with Deadline breaking word yesterday that he has teamed with The Lookalike director Richard Gray...