Eureka (2000)

Original title

ユリイカ

Directed by

Shinji Aoyama

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Japan

Runtime

3h 37m

Rated

15

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 101 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three people survive a bus hijacking and struggle to reconnect with normal life. The film follows a bus driver and two children as they try to recover from the trauma by living together in a remote house.

slow-burnmelancholiccontemplativequietbleakhauntingintimateatmospheric

What happens

Eureka is a 2000 Japanese drama film written and directed by Shinji Aoyama. It stars Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, and Masaru Miyazaki. It won the FIPRESCI Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. It was released in Japan on 20 January 2001. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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