Eureka (2000)

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Movie
German title Eureka
Original title Eureka
Country of production Japan
France
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2000
length 217 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Shinji Aoyama
script Shinji Aoyama
production Takenori Sento
music Isao Yamada
Shinji Aoyama
camera Masaki Tamura
cut Shinji Aoyama
occupation

Eureka is a 2000 Japanese feature film directed by Shinji Aoyama .

action

When Kozue and her brother Naoki get on the bus in the morning, everything still looks idyllic. The mother stands on a hill and waves, the bus drives off, then cut. The next shot shows a hand in a pool of blood! The bus has been hijacked and the hostage taker randomly kills the passengers. In the end, only the two siblings and the bus driver Makoto Sawai survive. He is celebrated as a hero, but, disturbed by the encounter with death, does not find his way back to his previous life. Driven, he finally flees and leaves his wife behind. Naoki and Kozue, as well as their whole family, were also ripped off by the trauma. For the children, the tragedy goes even further: first the mother leaves the broken family, then the father dies in a car accident. The siblings are left to their own devices.

After two years, Makoto finally returns, but nothing has changed for the better. His wife is gone and his brother's family is dismissive. Eventually, he even becomes the prime suspect in a series of murders. But it hit the children even worse. Left to their own devices, they have withdrawn, no longer speak and otherwise ceased all communication with the outside world. When Makoto has to escape the confines of his brother's middle-class world, he moves in with the two children ...

Reviews

  • "A formally and thematically outstanding film about responsibility, the imperceptible shifting of perception patterns and the chance of finding one's way back." (Film-dienst, November 6, 2001)
  • “Some films continue the medium of film as art, say valid things, and their narrative casts a spell over you until the end. They are rare. " (Anke Westphal in Berliner Zeitung , November 29, 2001)

Awards

The film ran in 2000 in the Cannes Film Festival competition for the Palme d'Or , but had to admit defeat to Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark . However, the film won the Ecumenical Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize in Cannes . At the Polish film festival Camerimage , which honors the best cameramen, the cameraman Masaki Tamura was nominated for the main prize, the Golden Frog , but Rodrigo Prieto , who was awarded for the film Amores Perros , could not prevail . In 2001, the film won Best Asian Film at the Singapore International Film Festival .

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

literature

  • Julia Gerdes: Eureka . In: Thomas Koebner (Ed.): Reclam Filmklassiker, Volume 5, from 1993 . 6th edition. Reclam, Ditzingen 2006, pp. 242-247

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