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Starring	Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Yohichiroh Saitoh
Director	Shinji Aoyama
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

Eureka

When a bus is violently hijacked in a small Japanese town, only three people survive: the guilt wracked driver Makoto (Koji Yakusho), and young brother and sister, Kozue and Naoki. Two years on, each of them, still traumatised by their ordeal, struggle to re-engage with life. But then one day Makoto impulsively buys a bus, and sets off with Kozue and Naoki on a long journey across Japan, which becomes a cathartic odyssey of spiritual self-discovery. Shinji Aoyama's beautifully shot drama is a serene and resonant meditation on the psychological scars wrought upon the victims of terror and violence and of the courage and inner strength they must find to survive.

Starring	Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Yohichiroh Saitoh
Director	Shinji Aoyama
Studio	FUSION MEDIA
Run time	DVD: 3 hrs 38 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Japanese
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2000 To Rent: DVD: 22 Apr 2002

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- "...Compelling....A transforming experience....EUREKA has a luminosity expressive of its spirituality and has a score shattering in its spareness..."
- 10201
- - Los Angeles Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
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  - 6
  Outstanding movie, definitely to be seen.
  
  A brother and sister take their daily bus ride to school. A young man in a suit pulls out a gun and hijacks the bus. Three executions and one police siege later... read more »
  
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  - Bruce M
  - Oxford, England
  - 02 Aug 2004 at 21:20
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  endurance test
  
  sight and sound in their review of this spiritual endurance test,said the director has confused length for depth wise words indeed ,as beautiful to look at as ... read more »
  
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- - andysbar
  - 34 reviews
  - London
  - 11 Jan 2012 at 07:06
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  Beautiful cinematography.
  
  Artfully filmed, this is an engrossing story of transformed lives following the trajedy of the busjacking at the start of the film.
  
  Over three hours ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 16 Sep 2011 at 14:52
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  Not Light Hearted
  
  I am not anti long fims-Apocalypse Now etc could be even longer but in this case a running time of 3 hours and 40 was way too much. Its particularly hard to ... read more »
  
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- - buffyrules
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  When a bus is violently hijacked in a small Japanese town, only three people survive: the guilt wracked driver Makoto (Koji Yakusho), and young brother and sister, Kozue and Naoki. Two years on, each of them, still traumatised by their ordeal, struggle to re-engage with life. But then one day ...