Eureka

Name: Eureka
Genre: Drama
Released: May 4, 2001
Duration: 217 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Aoi Miyazaki, Kôji Yakusho

2001

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Shooting Gallery | Release Date: May 4, 2001

Starring: Aoi Miyazaki, Kôji Yakusho

Summary: This beautifully composed black & white film explores a transcendent story of redemption. On what seemed to be a normal morning in southwest Japan, a crazed killer, apparently without motive, hijacks a city bus. In the ensuing carnage only three people survive - the driver, a schoolgirl and her older brother. (The Shooting Gallery)

Director: Shinji Aoyama

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 217 min

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Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

One of the year's best films, and certainly its most challenging so far: At more than three hours, watching it is less like consuming entertainment and more like living. Read full review

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Sean Axmaker

Aoyama's monochrome images are filled with a simple shadowy beauty and his scenes are rich in tender sensitivity and empathy. Read full review

David Rooney

Builds steadily through a series of masterfully orchestrated modulations to a final act without shattering revelations or lofty dramatic peaks but with a quiet, formidable power. Read full review

Fred Camper

The compositions and camera movement are both precise and elegant. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Eerily compelling. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Never feels inflated -- and it builds to an ending of unusual power. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Eureka never comes to life. -- In pursuing its aesthetic agenda so single-mindedly, the movie leaves the characters behind in the muck. Read full review

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Aug 12, 2018

"Eureka" is more of a meditation on trauma than a movie. It challenges its viewers to live it, not merely watch it. If you find power in simplicity and depth in nuance, you will love this film as I do. Long, gorgeous tracking shots are rarely interrupted. Instead they serve as pale but"Eureka" is more of a meditation on trauma than a movie. It challenges its viewers to live it, not merely watch it. If you find power in simplicity and depth in nuance, you will love this film as I do. Long, gorgeous tracking shots are rarely interrupted. Instead they serve as pale but indelible impressions. Mostly, meaning must be derived or discerned. The viewer is trusted to 'feel' this film, not provided instructions. It offers the slowest of slow burns. The payoff for a patient viewer is extraordinary. Though visually austere, it is a rich, lush film.

In a time of incessant visual stimulation, a film that moves as deliberately as "Eureka" might simply seem boring. Moreover, not everyone is inclined to devote three and a half hours to a film with little action and even less dialogue. I recognized that what I experienced as sublime, might be maddening to others. "Eureka" demands that its viewers surrender to it. If you're not willing to take the long slow ride, don't give this film a second thought -- it won't be worth your time.… Expand

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