The optical properties of a metal film perforated with coaxial elliptical hole arrays have been investigated experimentally and a simple analysis model that qualitatively explains the experimental results has been presented. In our structure, two localized excitations, i.e., the short- and long-axis localized surface-plasmon modes of the elliptical nanoparticles or nanoholes can be excited, which couples, respectively, with the surface-plasmon polariton modes and causes different optical response. As a consequence, the transmission features can be manipulated by the polarization state of the incident light.