Audition/YMMV


 * Adaptation Displacement: Based on a novel by Ryū Murakami, though the book wasn't translated into English until 2009, ten years after the film was released.
 * Alternate Character Interpretation: Does Asami's freakout make her more Yandere or Cute Psycho? Or is she only "loving" Aoyama the way she was taught as a child?
 * Complete Monster:
 * Another example is
 * Grotesque Cute: The scene with the bagman and the vomit.
 * It Gets Better: People coming into this film expecting the wall-to-wall gorefest typical of a Miike film will be initially surprised and disappointed that it starts off as a romantic comedy. Stick around, boys and girls... Uncle Takashi isn't done with you yet.
 * However,
 * It Was His Sled: It's pretty much common knowledge that the movie isn't a romantic drama in the slightest.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Asami wants her boyfriend to love only her. Too bad he has an adult son and a dog. Well, easily fixed...
 * Additionally, her stepfather crosses the moral event horizon the moment he pops up!
 * Nausea Fuel: The only time it is okay to feed someone your own vomit is if you are a bird feeding your babies..
 * The Woobie: Subverted and possibly deconstructed. When you still think it's a romantic comedy and she's showing Aoyama her scars and telling him about the abuse she suffered, one might be expecting a love conquers all ending where he mends her tattered soul and they live happily ever after. Then things go horribly, horribly wrong.
 * Woobie Destroyer of Worlds: Possibly Asami.