Eureka (2000 film)

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Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, and Masaru Miyazaki in Eureka
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.

1 Synopsis
2 Style
3 Awards
4 Home video
5 Screen viewings
6 External links

[edit] Synopsis

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.

[edit] Style

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]}

[edit] 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.