Eureka (2000 film)

Infobox Film
name = Yuriika


caption = Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, and Masaru Miyazaki in "Eureka"
director = Shinji Aoyama
producer = Philippe Avril
Takenori Sento
writer = Shinji Aoyama
starring = Kôji Yakusho
Aoi Miyazaki
Masaru Miyazaki
Yoichiro Saito
music = Shinji Aoyama
Albert Ayler
Jim O'Rourke
Isao Yamada
cinematography = Masaki Tamura
editing = Shinji Aoyama
distributor = The Shooting Gallery
released = flagicon|Japan Jan 20, 2000
runtime = 217 min
country = France / Japan
language = Japanese
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
imdb_id = 0243889

"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.

ynopsis

"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.

tyle

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.Fact|date=February 2007

Awards

"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.

Home video

It has never been released in the U.S. on video or DVD.

creen viewings

Released in the U.S. on full screen in Times Square.

External links

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* [http://www.festival-cannes.com/films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=5191 Cannes Film Festival]
* " [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2001/dy000120.htm Eureka] " at the Japanese Movie Database