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Eureka (2000 film)
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 Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, and Masaru Miyazaki in Eureka |
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| Directed by | Shinji Aoyama |
| Produced by | Philippe Avril Takenori Sento |
| Written by | Shinji Aoyama |
| Starring | Kôji Yakusho Aoi Miyazaki Masaru Miyazaki Yoichiro Saito |
| Music by | Shinji Aoyama Albert Ayler Jim O'Rourke Isao Yamada |
| Cinematography | Masaki Tamura |
| Editing by | Shinji Aoyama |
| Distributed by | The Shooting Gallery |
| Release date(s) |  Jan 20, 2000 |
| Running time | 217 min |
| Country | France / Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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Eureka is a 2000 Japanese film written and directed by Shinji Aoyama and stars Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, and Masaru Miyazaki. It has a total runtime of 3 hours, 37 minutes. It is mainly influenced by Kings of the Road.
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Eureka is a drama, set mainly in rural Japan, and is mostly shot in sepia tone. It tells the story of a young boy and girl, Naoki Tamura and Kozue Tamura (Masaru Miyazaki and Aoi Miyazaki, who are real-life siblings) who are on a bus when it is hijacked by a crazed killer. They, along with the bus driver, Makoto Sawai (Koji Yakusho), are the only survivors and flee together. But upon their attempted return to their normal lives, Makoto becomes a suspect in a series of murders and the children become orphaned. These numerous unfortunate events bring the three, along with the orphans' cousin, Akihiko (Yoichiro Saito), back together, forming a family and working toward reconciliation from the shared hijacking experience.
Aoyama films largely in widescreen sepia tone and often employs long takes of the Kyūshū landscapes and slow tracking shots with occasional close-ups of the affectless protagonists, recalling Andrei Tarkovsky and Michelangelo Antonioni.[citation needed]
Eureka won the FIPRESCI Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and won the Singapore International Film Festival's Silver Screen Award in 2001.
It has never been released in the U.S. on video or DVD.
Released in the U.S. on full screen in Times Square.
- Eureka at the Internet Movie Database
- Cannes Film Festival
- (Japanese) Eureka at the Japanese Movie Database