Eureka (2000 film)

• Koji Yakusho as Makoto Sawai
• Aoi Miyazaki as Kozue Tamura
• Masaru Miyazaki as Naoki Tamura
• Yoichiro Saito as Akihiko
• Sayuri Kokusho as Yumiko

Eureka is a Japanese film directed by Shinji Aoyama from the year 2000.

Action

The film tells the story of a brother and sister, which has survived a bus hijacking. Orphaned they live in the home of her parents and trying to deal with the situation.

Reviews

• " A formally and thematically outstanding film about responsibility, the imperceptible shift of patterns of perception and the chance of finding back. " ( Filmdienst, November 6, 2001)
• " Some films write the medium of film as an art continued, saying Valid, and her story moves until the very end in the spell. They are rare. " (Anke Westphal in Berliner Zeitung, 29 November 2001)

Awards

The film was shown in competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for the Golden Palm, but was defeated by Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark. However, the film in Cannes won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the FIPRESCI Prize. On the Polish Film Festival CamerImage that honors the best cameramen, the cinematographer Masaki Tamura was for the main prize, the Golden Frog, nominated, but could not Rodrigo Prieto prevail, which was awarded for the film Amores Perros itself. On the Singapore International Film Festival, the film won in 2001 for Best Asian film.

At the ceremony for the Japanese Professional Movie Awards 2002 Aoi Miyazaki won in the category Best Young Actress.