Eureka is a 2000 Japanese film directed and written by Shinji Aoyama

Shinji Aoyama

is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka.-Biography:...

. It stars Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki

Aoi Miyazaki

is a Japanese actress. She is best known for her pure image and roles such as in Nana and Virgin Snow. Her brother Masaru Miyazaki is an actor, and they starred together in the film Hatsukoi. She married Sosuke Takaoka on June 15, 2007, her partner since she was fifteen.-Career:Miyazaki started...

, and Masaru Miyazaki.

Synopsis

Eureka is a drama, set mainly in rural Japan, and is mostly shot in sepia tone. It tells the story of a young boy and girl, Naoki Tamura and Kozue Tamura who are on a bus when it is hijacked by a crazed killer. They, along with the bus driver, Makoto Sawai, are the only survivors and flee together. But upon their attempted return to their normal lives, Makoto becomes a suspect in a series of murders and the children become orphaned. These numerous unfortunate events bring the three, along with the orphans' cousin, Akihiko, back together, forming a family and working toward reconciliation from the shared hijacking experience.

Cast

• Kōji Yakusho as Makoto Sawai
• Aoi Miyazaki
  Aoi Miyazaki
  is a Japanese actress. She is best known for her pure image and roles such as in Nana and Virgin Snow. Her brother Masaru Miyazaki is an actor, and they starred together in the film Hatsukoi. She married Sosuke Takaoka on June 15, 2007, her partner since she was fifteen.-Career:Miyazaki started...
  
   as Kozue Tamura
• Masaru Miyazaki as Naoki Tamura
• Yoichiro Saito as Akihiko
• Sayuri Kokushō
  Sayuri Kokushō
  is a Japanese actor, singer, and tarento. She was an original member of Onyanko Club. She works for the talent management firm Sony Music Artists. Her debut single, Valentine Kiss, is the most popular Valentine's Day song in Japan.- Brief biography :...
  
   as Yumiko
• Ken Mitsuishi as Shigeo
• Gō Rijū as Busjack Man
• Yutaka Matsushige
  Yutaka Matsushige
  is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for Dear Doctor.-Selected filmography:-External links:...
  
   as Matsuoka
• Sansei Shiomi as Yoshiyuki Sawai
• Kimie Shingyoji
  Kimie Shingyoji
  is a popular actress and model in Japan, and she is known as one of the country's most beautiful women. Her best known roles are in the films Eureka, Station To Heaven, Natsumeke No Shokutaku, and Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl....
  
   as Mother
• Eihi Shiina
  Eihi Shiina
  Eihi Shiina is a fashion model and actress from Fukuoka, Japan. She got her first big break in 1995, working for Benetton, after which she represented Japan at the global Elite Model Look '95. More magazine work followed.Shiina made her film debut in 1999 with Dog-Food...
  
   as Keiko Kono
• Machiko Ono
  Machiko Ono
  is a Japanese actress.-Career:Born in a rural area of Nara Prefecture, Ono was spotted by the film director Naomi Kawase cleaning out the shoe boxes at her junior high school, and cast in the lead role in Kawase's Suzaku, which earned the filmmaker the Camera d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival....
  
   as Mikiko Sawai

Awards

Eureka won the FIPRESCI Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival

2000 Cannes Film Festival

The 2000 Cannes Film Festival started on May 14 and ran until May 25. The Palme d'Or went to the Danish film Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier.-Jury:* Luc Besson, President * Jonathan Demme * Nicole Garcia...

 and won the Singapore International Film Festival

Singapore International Film Festival

The Singapore International Film Festival was launched in 1987. The festival is an annual film event, held around April/May each year, and screens about 300 films from over 45 countries...

's Silver Screen Award in 2001.

External links

Eureka at the Japanese Movie Database