Audition vs I Am a Hero

I Am a Hero has the higher audience score (7.4/10 against 7.1/10 for Audition). Audition is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 6m. Audition is the older of the two (2000 against 2016). Both are drama, horror movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Audition posterAudition2000 VS I Am a Hero posterI Am a Hero2016
AuditionI Am a Hero
Audience score★ 7.1/10★ 7.4/10
Year20002016
Length1h 55m2h 6m
GenresDrama, HorrorAction, Drama, Horror
Country––
DirectorTakashi MiikeShinsuke Sato
Main castFumiyo Kohinata, Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura, Tetsu SawakiMasami Nagasawa, Nana Katase, Yo Oizumi, Yoshinori Okada, Kasumi Arimura

Synopsis

Audition

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.

I Am a Hero

Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old mangaka assistant, whose life seem to be stuck around his exhausting but low-paying job, unfulfilled dreams, strange hallucinations and unsatisfying relationships. He sees himself as a supporting character in his own life, has low self-esteem, resulting in frustration. One day, the world as Hideo knows it is shattered by the presence of a disease that turns people into homicidal maniacs, whose first instinct is to…

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