You may find yourself spellbound or colossally irritated; it's a close call either way.
Eureka(ユリイカ)
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Japan, France · 2000
3h 38m
Director Shinji Aoyama
Starring Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki, Yôichirô Saitô
Genre Drama
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One summer morning in Kyushu, southwest Japan, a municipal bus is hijacked. In the carnage, only three people survive: the driver, a school girl, and her older brother. The traumatized survivors come together and embark on a journey on the road while seeking to overcome their damaged selves.
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New Times (L.A.) by Andy Klein
Eureka is, quite extraordinarily, never dull.
Philadelphia Inquirer by Desmond Ryan
A work that demands patience, and it will easily exasperate some moviegoers.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Wrenching performances and painstaking visual and thematic compositions.
Quiet, powerful, contemplative, respectful of stillness, Eureka is the first film this year in which there is obvious greatness.
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
Eureka demands active attention, but rewards it with emotional resonance, thematic complexity and a succession of images that take up permanent residence in our brains.
It's never dull -- beautifully acted and handsomely shot in sepia-toned Cinemascope.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Slow -- sometimes maddeningly, soporifically so.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
Never feels inflated -- and it builds to an ending of unusual power.
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer
His (Aoyama) existential odyssey is so attenuated and aloof that he turns suffering into an art thing.
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